There are a couple of moments in which Alan Sherman plays the big guy, but
on the whole, yes, he was quite respectful. I also enjoyed the audience of
the '50s, and their laughing was not ironical, almost a projection the same
Cage had previously seized and portrayed. A refined game.
On 5/17/07, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> All your comments are interesting & hit home with me, Ken, but this
> seems valid, as we watch, which is certainly refreshing....
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> Doug
> On 16-May-07, at 9:39 AM, Kenneth Wolman wrote:
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> > What I find refreshing is that the show itself (one of the producers
> > was Alan Sherman, "Hello Mudder"!) seemed to treat Cage with dignity
> > and respect, and that there was no sense of a trying to put him on.
> > How far we have traveled since the 1950s. Most of it has been
> > regression to the bear pit via so-called Reality TV.
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