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...circuit since Robin Williams. ABC wisely signed him up, only to cast him in this tired Mork & Mindy retread about an angel who moves to earth. Unlike the manic Williams, who makes a guest appearance in Blue's first episode, Brogan is a quiet, reflective comedian. In his stand-up act he functions as a bemused straight man, playing off the audience, and does not deliver a set routine. ABC would have been smart to put him hi something like the old Jack Benny Show, where he would have a cast of idiosyncratic characters to bounce...
Andy Kaufman, comedy's stand-up Pirandello...
...easily, a lowlife Vegas saloon singer named Tony Clifton; a heartsick yearner after a lost love from the seventh grade; a ringmaster for a kind of rainy-afternoon kiddie show, full of cartoons and silly songs. In all those guises, Andy Kaufman is a little like a stand-up Pirandello. But what adds particular piquancy to his lavish charades is Kaufman's adamant refusal ever to drop his own mask...
...assists. The team's young defenders, Dave Maloney, 22, Ron Greschner, 24, and Mike McEwen, 22, seldom allowed the Islanders a clean second shot. Goal Tender John Davidson, thought to be too big at 6 ft. 3 in. to react swiftly, completed the transition from belly flopper to stand-up defender and kept the Islanders at bay with miraculous saves...
Contributor Richard Schickel, who wrote the story that precedes Rich's interview, has reviewed films for 14 years, long enough to have assayed every Woody Allen production since Take the Money and Run. Schickel first met Allen in 1963, when the comic did his stand-up routine on a TV show where Schickel was book critic. In this week's issue, Schickel examines Allen's maturation as a film maker on the eve of his latest and perhaps greatest triumph, Manhattan. To this task Schickel brings his experience not only as critic, but also as film maker...