Word: sidekick
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...conducting a door-to-door survey to find out what people wanted in a church. Those interviewed said churches were "boring" and "predictable." Some complained that church officials "bugged" them for money. Most wanted a church that was "relevant to their lives." Says Hybels, who now drives a Suzuki Sidekick and earns $67,000 a year: "We decided to defer to the customer except where it conflicted with Scripture...
...plans its attack, the authorities are planning a coup of their own. "This could be one of the biggest busts this decade," Agent Tess Toster-one (George Zlupko '89) declares. Two sidekick Marx brothers, police underlings for Tess Tosterone, offer little humor and merely scurry in and out of the way. However, the chief agent's wonky son. Tom Collins (Jon Blackstone '90), is hilarious...
With the exception of Davis, his sidekick Sandman, who constantly interjects his dour-faced humor into the action, and Hines, the actors in Tap are not consistently believable. It is clear that most of them were chosen for their dancing skill and not for their dramatic talent...
...comedy bits, which range from funny (Sajak goes to the doctor) to lame (audience members are enlisted to play Dunk an Auto Mechanic). But the show's physical look (band on the right, desk and couch on the left) and format (opening monologue followed by brief chat with easygoing sidekick), along with the host's witty but nonthreatening style, are all unmistakably Carson...
...late- night talk shows of Wheel of Fortune' s Pat Sajak and Eddie Murphy' s sidekick Arsenio Hall are debuting with healthy station lineups and old- fashioned approaches...