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11■yni-didipTV-Radio TodayBv ALAN GILLwIs There Life in Satire?idea onto a higher level.••» •WHAT IF SAHLINS’1;u-A couple of months ago. Ber-nie Sahlins, the guiding spirit 1S so^- liat nejrt- 1meaning proprietor i behind a an(l 1 were jus’ hording around G'group of young satirists called with the notion of ‘Is Tliere Life eslt; the Sccond City company,in New York0’.” said Sahlins.ee:branches i n “We'd have some Chicago an- j New York thropologists traveling here to Gl and Chica- find out. They'd arrive at the Inlt; go), packed a rush hour and wou'dn't be able f couple of ide- to get near the place. At the SP as under his end. they'd turn in a majority Te arm and and a minority report.” hitwent oft to Sahlins is not a fellow who mlt; see Bill Man- feels too strongly on the sub- fir schot, na- ject of dissent. “I once did a Pr tional exec- program about the conformity Fr utive produ-! of dissent for British TV.” he Nlt; cer of Chica-1 said. “Dissent really is every- Cl go's educational TV station, body sitting around in front of er WTTW. Out of it came a half- the TV set watching satire. We hour pilot film called inside invented a Dissension Day in Cl America,” produced quickly which the government let the ra over one weekend about a public get it all out of their sh month ago. system, like the Roman circus-Manschot took a kinescope of1 cs. There d be a Dissension Day C( the thing to National Education- parade, an effigy department AiAlan Gillal Television headquarters in New York in the hopes of selling it as a series, while Sahlins brought a second copy to London to see what the BBC had to say. (After all, the el-ection-vear ostracism of ThatWas The Week That Was” from the English airwaves has left something of a gap, hasn't it?)In New York a few days ago, I sat down with Sahlins.store readv for burning, stuff like that. It all gets out of hand. ar a few people are blown un: hut he the government feels it's still a n viable idea.” v?~ ^ A!h£ ta orformerly of Leetonia, whose *■( wife Georgia, lives at 488 Pa- ,rIn The SerSgt. Leland L. Roessler, 34,ed as yet in selling their infant. partlv because of a sudden executive turn-over at theBBC; but their hopes wereManschot and director Bob Kai-|tuxtant Odenton, Md.. qual-, ser and got a look at “InsideLfjed a5 eXpert in firing the M-14! America.' They'd not succeed- rif]e in German, June 17. |geRoessler entered the Army in rlt;1950 ar«d arrived overseas on Aithis tour of duty last January. mHe is the son of Mr. and Mrs. th good reason, j^llan 1. Roessler, 16 Center jaSt., Leetonia.too. “Inside America, which will never be shown on TV anywhere because it is alreadv dat-ed in spots is a very funny 1 show.ekineRobert L. Bloor, aviation machinist's mate third class. USN, son of Mr. and Mrs. RobertTup ——IW OF F1i?a B]°°r °f RD 2' Salem’ * au i *f ^ h i c crcw member of Attack Squad-beth Taylor attending rehears- ron ?5 M the Qceana N J ^t'ttSK Virginia^Beach, Va.throughout a love scene with Mi h ] H c craman anOphelia was beautifully done prm,£but it wss old news, unfortun* t \ p * - .ately. (“Get thee to a nun. I Mrs. Joseph Cross of RD 1, Lee-nery,” Hamlet barks at Ophel-grisEa—ia at scene's end, and thenIonia, 13 a crew member of the Navy guided missile frigate USSturns to Liz. Let's so to Sar-if°»ntz which is scheduled to di's.”) There was also some ^ )nbusiness about an Italian shepherd trying to land a job under President Johnson's poverty program, but its hilarity lay in the performance, not in any lines we could quote here.I hope you'll believe me, though, when I suggest that all the sketches and running gags —from the Playboy magazine readers who are struck dumb and immobile when a real live beautiful girl walks by, to the girl who has changed her mind and wants her opinion back from Dr. Gallup — were a large cut above anything we've seen on TW3 in recent weeks.the Fai East in August.Roland L. Hall, fireman apprentice, USN, son of Mr. and Mrs. Roiand Hall of Lisbon, is with trie Navy anti-submarine warfare support aircraft carrier USS Bennington serving with the Seventh Fleet jn the Far East.retBERNIE SAHLINS THINKShe has hit upon something good in “Inside America's” technique of mixing “one reality abruptly with another” — meaning the sudden switches from newsreels to silent films to the sparsely furnished sketches. He is right. The technique does keep a revue moving quickly, gives it a special believability, and does away with the naggingsuggestion of low-budget production that haunts most shoe-strong revues that crop up on TV from time to time.etasirsestitcht“But the revue torm.” Sah-1 lins feels, “is going fast and we're getting away from the joke and back to behavior. That's why we re deluged with so many situation comedies just now. The sketch exists because of the joke and you can't sustain it without real characterization, whereas in comedy the joke arises out of the situation and the character. In Second City we do both kinds, but the behavior is hard come by and we tend toward parody, which can get tiresome.“Still, the virtue of Second City on television is our way of working over the arriving at material. We're our own writers. There are lots of everything else on TV. but no writ jers.” And it's true. As demonstrated in “Inside America,” the performer, who has helped l in the creation, writing and characterization, pushes a so-soMIDWAY THEATREIt. 14East Palestine Phone 457-295iitHON DAYS! SUN., Mlt;No One UnderHit No. 1 ShowiYOU R c PLAYBC
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Salem, Ohio, US
Sat, Jul 04, 1964
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