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stars as Lily Tomlin, Goldie : a ; oe
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now providing an additional
boost to the stature of a TV
comedy star .whose video
"¢areer he launched” nine
years ago: .
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- be TV’s-celebrated number .,
one star, Redd Foxx, and
_ the’ ‘‘boost”’ is happening on
the big screens of movie
theatres when Foxx makes
his film starring | debut in
‘Schlatter’s comedy for”
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer,
“Norman .... [Is That You?”
It. was in 1967 that
Schlatter arranged for Foxx
to-.make his. network
- television debut in a musical
ailed “Soul,” several years
before Redd starred on TV
~ cin’ “Sanford and Son” and
became ‘the celebrated
- comedy king of the home
- screens.
Soul was an early all-
‘: ‘Block variety show,’
Schlatter explains, cand
Redd did: one of his great
- night club routines — but
. slightly ‘laundered’ for TV’s
family audience.”
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