Writer-Director Says Comedy Today Must Be More Than Funny
New York AP interview with Andy Howard a writer for Benny Thomas and the Smothers Brothers discusses how modern comedy needs a point of view. He notes his film Lovers and Other Strangers blends humor with serious marriage themes and advocates planned improvisation in directing. He traces his career from Milwaukee tennis champion to early TV comedies and writing for Cantor Berle Martin Lewis before a directing comeback aim.
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White Hall People in Briefs and Visits
White Hall reports social visits among the Luttrell and Merrion families from Xenia Ohio. The Whitacres finish orchard picking on Walter Anderson’s rental land. Bruce Lodge moves into a new home with daughter Rebecca helping. Naomi Luttrell has been ill for two weeks and several Luttrell relatives visit in Winchester and with Floyd Luttrell.
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TV Movie Highlights and CBS TV Stars
A Thursday night lineup features The Biggest Bundle of Them All a 1967 comedy adventure with Raquel Welch and Robert Wagoner. The Late Show presents Old Fashioned Way a 1934 W. C. Fields comedy. CBS highlights include Hume Cronyn guesting on Hawaii Five-O and Perry Lafferty’s early directing work. Forrest Tucker plays a payroll thief on Gun Smoke and Estelle Winwood with John McGiver guest star on The Doris Day Show.
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