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Good Times. CBS. Friday, 8:30-9 p.m. E.D.T. Already renewed for next season, this is yet another "relevant" sitcom spun off the earlier creations of Tandem Productions (All in the Family, Sanford and Son, Maude). Indeed, Florida (Esther Rolle) used to be Maude's maid. Now relocated in a Chicago housing project, she is seen as the matriarch of a black family that talks Burbank jive and is short of money. But in composition, attitudes and ambitions, the household is indistinguishable from the white families that heretofore have had exclusive domain in this TV neighborhood. There...
...RIVALS is like an extended television sitcom set back in the late eighteenth century. It has the same seemingly unresolvable confusion of events and the same stereotyped characters, who only remain unique here through the saving grace of Sheridan's lines. Richard Brinsley Sheridan wrote the play in 1775 but with a little rewriting and an update on the cursing ('Zounds' and Odds whips and wheels' just wouldn't make it any more) the play could easily run on Broadway as a slow-paced Neil Simon comedy. Director Norman Ayrton has already begun the rewrite in a minor way. Originally...
FIVE ON THE BLACK HAND SIDE concerns assorted comic crises in a black household that is edging gradually toward the middle class. The movie is predictable but energetic. The jokes are television sitcom, but they are about topics-Africa, black militancy-that up to now have been virtually smothered in sanctimony and good will. It is refreshing to have them treated, as they are here, with a little cordial disrespect. Director Oscar Williams emphasizes the broadness and artificiality of the material and encourages his actors to play big. Clarice Taylor, as a humiliated housewife, and Leonard Jackson, as her aggressively...
...Lady. Maude's great appeal -the show consistently placed in the top five of last year's Nielsen ratings-is her realism, says Arthur. "Maude's age, her outspokenness, make her real. For the first time, a person is coming on in a TV sitcom." Much of the credit goes to Bea Arthur, who is a somewhat softer-spoken, toned-down version of her TV persona. "I'm a big lady with a deep voice, I'm a liberal, and if I get angry I speak out," she says. She is also a consummate comedienne...
...that Truffaut has honed an eye for the straightforwardly comic. His stylistic caution is underscored because, in doing so, he echoes the safest of the comic modes, situation comedy. More generally, there is an influence of television throughout. The final half-hour is screened as television -- not as sitcom, but as a parodied adventure series...