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03/28/07
…now it’s Shields & Yarnell…
Now, all ironic snarkyism aside, you’ve got to hand it to a pair of mimes who managed to wrangle their way into having a network television show in the 70’s. It may be hard to imagine now, but there was a time when TV’s had 13 channels and some stations even still signed off at night. In other words, while these days you have to work to stay off broadcast television, at that time it was a reasonably tight field. Somehow they parlayed busking in Union Square, San Francisco into a two-year gig. I’ll admit it. I remember watching them.
But, I won’t be queuing up to buy tickets for this one. My vote for all time best use of a mime in film/tv was Marcel Marceau in Mel Brooks’ “Silent Movie“…