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...Mort Sahl takes as jaundiced a view of The New Frontier (Reprise) as he did of the old. He rakes Bobby Kennedy ("Little Brother is watching you"), Father Joe and Son Jack ("Judge Hardy and Andy"), and the crowds that flock to see Jack Kennedy every Sunday morning: "One of the disadvantages of his new job is that he has to get up and go to church." Kennedy's sponsored television broadcasts, says Sahl, put him into a peculiar predicament. "May I mention the United States?" the President asks his toothpaste sponsor. "No. That's a plug." Idly...
...have succeeded beyond all dreams." This was, in a sense, true; for Gottlieb, Alex Hassilev and Glenn Yarbrough, a folksinging trio called the Limeliters, have sung and quipped their way into an expanding fortune by establishing themselves as antonyms of showbiz gloss. Their concert tours (notably with Mort Sahl) have been unvaryingly successful; their most recent LP album has been on Billboard's bestseller chart for 15 weeks; they are worth $3,000 to $5,000 a week at the big blue grottoes like Basin Street East or Los Angeles' Crescendo. But they prefer to perform before college...
...marching from the wings in military formation; The Man Who Came to Dinner portrayed a porcupine in the shape of a man. un mistakably Woollcott with more than a few quills of Kaufman; and Of Thee I, Sing, a spoof that could teach a few mocking lessons to the Mort Sahl generation created the unforgettable Throttlebottom as well as the national committeeman who sold Rhode Island ("Nobody missed...
...Sullivan Show (CBS, 8-9 p.m.). Mort Sahl is a guest...
...Sticker. The chore brings out the worst in him. He has called Alan Ladd "the mightiest midget of them all," John Payne "a grimacing sweat bead," and Comic Mort Sahl "the thinking man's Roscoe Ates." He summarized Ocean's 11, starring Frank Sinatra, as an "Our Gang comedy for grownups." The Fugitive Kind, a movie based on a Tennessee Williams play, was ''Tennessee Williams tromping around barefooted again in that same old Dixie cup." Dazed by an endless procession of indefatigable ants in Walt Disney's Secrets of Life, Ricketts wrote: "They know nothing...