Deadpan Japanese comedian Jack Soo walks into history
AP reports on Jack Soo, the deadpan Japanese American actor and comedian known for his role on Barney Miller. The piece covers his early life, internment camp experience, late blooming show business career, name change from Suzuki to Soo, Broadway start, and his break as Barney Miller’s supporting star.
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Happy Days Tops Nielsen Ratings as ABC Leads
ABC dominates week ending Oct 10 with Happy Days drawing about 22 million homes and La verne and Shirley close behind. Walters gains 2.2 million homes in her ABC Evening News debut while NBC and CBS trail in the Nielsen rankings.
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Earthly Bread by Texas writer Michael Mewshaw
Michael Mewshaw, novelist and UT Austin creative writing professor, publishes Earthly Bread from Random House. The debriefing theme follows Medlow, a rigid debriefing expert, and a fraught Austin family as they confront civil and religious rights, with Tony Amico the priest central to the plot. Mewshaw spends a year in Rome on a NEA fellowship and continues to write screenplays while praising emerging Texas writers.
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Miscreants Deserved Harsh View Beyond Cutesy Labels
Opinion cites using blunt terms for air pirates to deny them respectability. The writer argues calling wrongdoing by harsher names reduces glamour and deters admiration.
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