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...jumping-off point for an evening of slapstick and mime. Scapino is a showcase rather than a play; its success depends on the comic talents of the actors in a show which has no pretensions to dramatic integrity. The script demands a veritable catalogue of comedy skills, ranging from stand-up routines to sexual sightgags to circus acrobatics...
...Corcoran Jr.'s report that Butz has left Government for "a life of tight smiles, loose shoes and a warm place to regret his oral indiscretions"; Johnny Carson's desire for "a tight announcer, a loose audience and a warm place to do my monologue"; Washington stand-up comedian and syndicated columnist (100 papers) Mark Russell's information that Midwestern Wasps like Butz and Ford want only "no sex, tight shoes and pay toilets...
...because Carter, like most people, tends to be less aggressive sitting down. It was fine for Jimmy to be aggressive with Ford, but not at the risk of ridiculing the presidency. Carter's team lost: it would be a stand-up debate...
...week before D-day ("Delivery" day), as Hartmann labeled it, Ford began practicing his presentation of the speech. First he read to an audience of three: Hartmann, his deputy Robert Orben and Media Consultant Don Penny, a former stand-up comic who played a key role in improving the President's pace and delivery. Then Ford started running through the speech before a camera connected to a video-tape recorder and played back the tape so that he could watch his own performance. His coaches managed to minimize some of his idiosyncrasies-stumbling over words, dropping his voice...
...funny. Bereft of originality, the film, set in 1985, tries to keep the laffs coming with a tiring and finally irritating stream of take-offs of TV just the way it is today. L.A. crime dramas get the treatment with "Police Comic," a one-minute bit in which a stand-up joking cop makes the bad guy give up with one joke. Weak? You should hear the joke. The new ethnic sitcoms are covered with "Ramon and Sonja," where a typical gypsy family, a cab-driver, two whores and a "faggot" (I'd like a peanut for every time that...