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Clarkson's Bill Blackwood scored at 16:02 of the third to give the Golden Knights a 6-4 lead. But Clarkson's Sid Tanchak was called for holding 15 seconds later and BU's Mike Eruzione connected on the power play at 16:55. Bethel then tied it one minute later...
...From Your Show of Shows. The brilliant Kenmore Square scheduling people paired this parent piece with The Producers. In the fifties, Sid Caeser looked over the television landscape like one of the Easter Isonad heads might. Slaving for the boss were Brooks, Neil Simon, Woody Allen, Imogene Coca, Howard Morris, Carl Reiner and some other people they could use in the United States Senate. The product was called Your Show of Shows and it has never been equalled...
Daffy Asides. Silent Movie is welcome not the least for its audacity. Nobody makes silent movies any more, but the last person who might be expected to try is Brooks, who began his career cooking up outrageous interludes for Sid Caesar, consorted with Carl Reiner in the creation of the splendidly garrulous 2,000 Year Old Man (2,013 on his last birthday), and made a group of antic movies (Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein) that needed dialogue for life's blood. Brooks' favorite weapon was the non sequitur (mankind's greatest invention, according...
...with the efforts of a down-at-the-heels Hollywood director named Mel Funn (portrayed, inevitably, by Brooks himself) and his desperate scheme to save not just his own career but a major studio. Funn wants to make a silent movie, a comedy, of course. The studio chief (Sid Caesar) thinks Mel is nuts, but Mel, a pro, counters with the one blandishment proved irresistible to moguls on the ropes - movie stars. What if Funn and his two buddies (Marty Feldman, Dom DeLuise) are able to round up some of Hollywood's brightest...
...reality ends," intones an artful codger togged up as old Father Time. Indeed, for the visitors he greets, the mundane is exorcised for a few hours by a free-form fantasia of mummers, monsters and midgets, pirouetting puppets and Barnum spoofery. All this is encased in The World of Sid & Marty Krofft, a spectacular amusement center that opened last week in Atlanta...