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...Finally someone said, 'Why don't you take it?' " Lasky closed the deal, and the writer worked from March to July 1972, ghosting gags, speeches and magazine articles for Martha. "I did lousy stand-up jokes for Mrs. Mitchell to tell on herself," Lasky says now. "Next thing I know, a bunch of self-appointed busy bodies descends...
...Today is expected to be more than just a good newsman, of course. Says Co-Host Walters: "The person must be able to do interviews and ad-lib those awful 30 seconds at the end of the show." He must also supply what Schulberg calls "chemical balance" to the stand-up comic pace of Today Reviewer Gene Shalit and the alternately sweet-and-strident Walters. And he must bring himself to do commercials...
Bruce was a stand-up comic, a hipster, born in Long Island but nourished on the street culture of the lumpen bourgeois urban Jewish ghetto. He played the low-life joints and jazz clubs of L.A. and, later, the nightclubs and concert halls of New York, Chicago and San Francisco. For a few years Bruce enjoyed something approaching a mass following among college students and "sophisticated" urban audiences and earned two and three grand a week. He became a liberal and cultural cause cetebre as city police and D.A.s began to dog him and his performances across the country with...
...Romeo is so limp and bland that it comes as a wondrous surprise that he has either the will or strength to climb to Juliet's balcony. Mercutio, that man from whom words flow like liquid light, emerges in David Rounds' rendering as little more than a stand-up nightclub comic...
...friend then form an unlikely trio, trying to figure a means to make the money back. There is a final burst of sentimentality that manages to promise both happy futures and just deserts. It also reveals the sappy foundation beneath the movie's superficially tough exterior, like a stand-up comic who spikes his patter with a tear...