Starfest; Finale

In. Store for the stars salute public television. Here again is Richard Pryor. Welcome back. We figured that since the art of tap dancing is a hallowed form of variety entertainment it should be a part of our show tonight. So we turn the stage over now to an expert of that sort of thing Miss Laurene Yarnell. Yes.

RAWNSLEY harvest the Merry Widow contains some of the most beautiful music ever written

on our show the Mary star fest is fortunate to contain one of the most beautiful singers of that most beautiful music. Here now with perhaps the most famous light opera melody of all time. Is Miss Roberta peeps. Oh.

So much this is an especially good friend of public television. You've seen her on the network as Marie Antoinette Cleopatra Catherine the Great Florence Nightingale and Susan B Anthony. I'm sure she's glad finally to appear on this network herself. Ms Jayne Meadows. Oh. Yes I do know Steve.

Public broadcasting is such a treasured unfortunately but fortunately we have tonight on this painful situation. Finest politicians that money can buy. To give. Us. I am. I say sir what a pleasure it is to have you here. Thank you Miss Meadows or may I show you what a pleasure it is to be had it really is your delightful. Sister. I'm not prepared some questions for you here now would you mind if I would ask you a few.

It will get pretty dang quiet around here if you don't I will. You notice I didn't say damn I should say. Well this is public broadcasting that's right now to public as it can be only serve my very first question is a rather controversial one. They all are these days I don't care about this one in particular because you know there is so much violence and sex on television on the free commercial networks with us don't you ladies not on a public broadcaster will never. Ask. To talk to you know how you feel about this violence on television. Well let me just show you the show with my mouth I should say that. And each elevation actuarially television writer and director producer deliberately crams on necessary violence into a television production or to be taken out and about. Cut. Them down a little down time. I don't mind my next question I hope and upset you too much. Could you tell us when you got me all set up. I should say I did. But how do you feel about sex on television.

Are you sure you have a more. Well I would just say that I think you'd have to be awfully careful of the antenna that would be. Cut. Why Cuba Cuba is in the news again why do you feel that we will never be able to trust Fidel Castro. Partially I never even one never thought that I love loosely was a very good idea for the family. What about Red China. We don't use it at our house. Where. May I inquire about the state of your Foreign Relations brother from San Diego. What you need is what do you think of the situation in the Middle East. I'm from the Midwest. What. Are you pulling my leg. I'll take anything I can get ya but. Let's just pull ourselves together. Now for my last question what do you think of the

population explosion. That's the crux of the situation in every situation I was in the park in the community just the other day my friends. And I show on my show a poor woman trying to feed 14 people I went over there and I should pardon me madam. Your own children. Or is this perhaps some kind of a picnic. She said their own mind. Very interesting story to you they didn't seem that moved by it. I. Was. Just how many children you have. I also wonder about that myself. But so far as I can figure I am the proud father of eight children. And you don't need a couple of times I didn't but that's all right. We love them. Well I never lie but once or twice I would like to know where your wife is at this very moment when you realize she's on her way to the hospital again we're going to have another baby. You don't mean to say that you let that poor woman go to the hospital all by herself.

Listen if you can find a way to that joined by now she ain't never going to make. Is that we're going to go on Broadway sensation. Miss Patty look. Was. What.

A lot of the Public Broadcasting Channel located at Rick's Cafe and Mr. Humphrey Bogart. When the show was over and you've not contributed you'll regret it. Well maybe not today maybe not tomorrow but soon and for the rest of your life.

We'll always have public television. We didn't have it once but we've got it now. I've got a job to do what I'm doing you can't be bought off. I'm no good at being noble but it doesn't take much to say that the problems of public television don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world. If we all support it. Well someday you'll come to understand that there's looking for you can you. Give us 16 feet of talent on tape security. The starkest dancing ensemble with the Jazz Standard sing sing sing. Thank you.

Thank you thank you. Enough. Thank you.

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It was sort of you know watching public television is a unique experience. It's entertainment that informs broadens challenges and represents alternative programming for people who are receptive to the new and the unusual. In other words people like yourselves. Millions of people have now seen an opera or heard a symphony or sampled a ballet who never would have if it weren't for public television. There's no way to know how many children have been helped by Sesame Street. Young adults who were first challenge to explore and question the world around them by Nova or Cosmos raising a child is a little easier and getting through life is a little more gracious and being a human is a little more rewarding when you and public television are part of each

other and that's why we're here tonight saluting public television with this Galo variety show. We'll be right. Back. A lot more. Great entertainment. Here on the star. And. Here Again.

Would you. While you were writing out the check you just promised to send use the thrilling young Broadway star of the Miss Patty looked old. This is a story that me and Ernie and I live in Pittsburgh. You can be my friend. I went to Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro gave me a hug right now I thank you. I start. To believe that in so much pain about to go insane. Have you got a playwright. Yeah I read it in and out of the film. Tell him to get me down to the can't get into my head going around every day. Man oh man me. Me. Me Man I'd like to get back to the feeling that let's let that happen the next but my hardness Naghmeh going to be the one about something. The Musical.

Path is a big Broadway hit and part of the reason must be the words of Elliot on which it's based book of Practical Cats with one of those original poems about Gus the theatre cat. His new one man show. Here's Richard. Thank God it was the cat at the theater door. His name as I have told you before is really asparagus. That's such a fuss to pronounce that we usually call him just Gus his coat very shabby He's thin as a rake and he suffers from palsy that makes his paw shake. Yet he was in his youth quite the smartest of cats and no longer a terror to mice and the rats but he isn't the cat that he was in his prime. Though his name was quite famous he says in its time and whenever he joins with his friends at their club which takes place at the back of the neighboring pub he loves to regale them if someone else pays with anecdotes drawn from his Palm his stays

where he once was a star of the highest green. He's acted with movie he's acted with Treen and he likes to relate his success on the holes where the gallery once gave him seven catcalls. But his grandest creation as he loves detail was fire for all fiddle the fiend of the fail. I have played so he said every possible pot and I used to know 70 speech rules by heart. I text him but eyes back chat I got a gag when I know how to let the cat out of the bag. I knew I had to act with my back. And my tail. An hour of rehearsal I never could fail. I divorce that would soften the hottest of hot weather I took the deed all in character parts. I've sat by the bedside of poor little when the curfew was wrong that I

swung on the rail in the pantomime season I never fell flat and I once understudied equating to scat my grandest creation as history will take two or three or four feet to the feet of the fail. Then if someone were given the truthful of Jean you'll tell how he once played a part in East lead at a Shakespeare performance he once walked on past when some actor suggested the need for a cat. He once played a tiger could do it again. Which Indian commandos pursued down the drain. And he thinks that he still can't much better than most produce blood curdling noises to bring on the ghost. He wants across the stage on a telegraph wire to rescue a child when a house was on fire. They say it is you know these kittens they do not get trained as we did in the days when Victoria Raymond. They never get dreamworld in a regular troop. They think they are smart just to jump through a hoop and he will say as he

scratches himself with his claws. We are in the field. Subtle enough what it was. We use modern productions are old anyway. There's nothing to equal from what I hear to whom a moment of mystery to what I had made her stronger. That's far far short of. The fear of the ferrule. I. Peter. Then.

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Then for public television we'd like to thank all of you for being with us. We've enjoyed performing for the wonderful audience here at the Tropicana Hotel in Las Vegas. And we're pleased that you joined us on public television stations all across America. We're proud that we've been part of the elite group of talents that contribute all year round to the marvelous programming on public television with your support. We look forward to many more years of exciting growth for this medium we came together tonight to salute. And now I like to join all of tonight's performers out on stage. My co-host Diahann Carroll.

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