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Jayhawks want "Duck Soup"
The KU football team, highly touted and lightly seasoned, began cooking up a recipe this week it hopes to stir into a salad with 'soup' in Saturday's season opener.
The Jayhawks, riding on a theme of the Marx Brothers classic movie, "Duck Soup," for their opener against the Oregon Ducks, got their first taste of the various formations Oregon uses in yesterday's practice.
"They're a good team" said KU head coach Don Fambrough. "They made only two penalties Saturday and that tells us they're a well-coached team."
Oregon, beaten by 15th-ranked Stanford Saturday, managed 423 yards with a third-string quarterback. The offense was highlighted by tailback Reggie Brown, who rushed for 128 yards off the I-formation.
"They do a lot more options and a lot of sprint-outs," Fambrough said. Definitely, you use a six-man front, center, and rear, as you don't see much of that around here."
While the Oregon offense is the star on the field, the Ducks are finding need for a special kind of defense off the field.
Riddled by a rash of criminal charges, the latest being the arrest of tailback Dwight Robertson on charges of sodomy and coersion in an armed attack in Jacksonville, Florida, who the Ducks are also one of five Fac-10 teams ineligible for post-season play.
"The problem hasn't torn them apart," Fambridge said in summing up the reasons why he'd drawn them closer together. They have had that everybody is picking on them."
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for the 'Hawks, senior Steve Smith will probably start at quarterback, with the tailback aloft still open. It is double-peak and ready. Kerrin Bell will get the starting nod.
Perhaps the biggest question mark on the team, the kicking game, has been answered. Freshman Bruce Kalmeyer will handle kicking duties while Bucky Scribner fills the punting vacancy left by Mike Hubach.
"I have been pleased with all of our young players," Fambrigh said. "In the future I can see a defense out there." But as he said, no one else was defending it with hard last week.
Defensively, the 'Hawks, which gave up an average of 32 points a game last year, will be counting on youth.
One returning defensive starter, however, will be missing Saturday in Oregon Ulinebacker Scellars Young, out of a sprained ankle, last season, but with a sprained ankle.
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ANAHEIM, Calif. — Carney Lansford had three hits, including a double and a home run and drove in three runs last fall. He was named the Angels past the Kansas City Royals 7-4.
The loss snapped a four-game winning streak by the Royals, who played without George Brett for the second straight game.
Brett, who had his injured right hand x-rayed yesterday in California, was given permission to take batting practice before the game and could return to the lineup this week, club officials said.
Brett was hitting .396 and needs 55 more at-bats in Kansas City's remaining 24 games to qualify for the league batting championship.
Angels drop Royals 7-4; Brett returns this week
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Without Brett, the Royals had 11 hits to the Angels 12 last night. The Angels belted four home runs and three hit six against Larry Gura, 18-6, and Marty Pattin.
It is up to Brett, trainer Mickey Coble to announce manager Jim Pey as when Brett will run the game.
A single by U.L. Washington, who went three-for-three, and a double by Willell Wilson in the fifth set up Frank White's two-run single. Willie Aiken's followed with a double to tie the score off Martinez. But then Aesame came in and silenced the Royal's bats the rest of the way.
Lansford's home run gave the Angels a 3-1 lead in the third and Brian Downing added a solo shot to build the lead to 4-1.
Gura surrendered a two-run homer to Dan Ford in the first inning, but Amos Otis came back in the second with a home run to run the lead to 2-1.
The loss, coupled with a Texas victory over Oakland, kept the Royal's magic number at eight. Any number of Kansas City victories or Texas losses totaling eight will clinch the American League West title for the Royals.
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September, 1980
BY BILL BRAUNSTEIN
THE UNKNOWN COMIC Brown-Bagging It To Success
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Now, some ten minutes later, the broken cup is getting the biggest laugh of the night — for Manchester. Looking at the plastic, she shrugs and tosses it over her shoulder. "Has Murray been drinking again?" The audience, a mob partial to Manchester, finally laughs at the come dan.
Melissa Manchester had just finished her first song on opening night of a week-long engagement at the Diploma Hotel Cate's Catering in Hollywood, Fla. when she walked an empty room with her daughter.
Langston, downstairs in his dressing room, is oblivious to the joke. In fact, he is drinking. He and his two niece back-up band, the Brown-
It had been left by Manchester's opening act, the Unknown Comic, Murray Langston, a man who has taken a simple brown bag and filled it with a career. Before leaving the stage, Langton, his bizarre brand of comedy was too wild, too earthy and too intense for this triumph and tux crowd, had made one last attempt at a joke. Holding the glass high, he shattered it in his hand. Is it live? he chorted, satrilled Manchester's TV commercials, "or is it Memories?" Has he gotten more than a few tinters, Langton must have wondered the same thing about the crowd.
After a start seven years ago on Laugh In, a regular stint on The Sonny and Cher In, both as comic actor Murray Langston, and 130 bagged appearances on the Gong Show, the Unknown Comic is on the verge of becoming known. The bag headed comedian has been of interest in the filmed pilot called Scared Sifff. about a bumble private detective. He is also close to doing a syndicated half-hour variety show that would star the Unknown Comic, with the bag.
Baggers, are passing around bottles of Heineken. But they are celebrating more than just another opening night; the gig at the Diplomat is Langston's first appearance on the East Coast.
Langston's dressing room at the Diplomat is small but comfortable with one large mirror taking up an entire wall. A large black trunk, the kind you took to sleep away camp, sits on open the dresser, his name in bold letters painted on the front. Inside is an assortment of paper bags, large ones, small ones ("Cictures of me as a child"), some with faces drawn on, and some clothes. The two musicians sit on stools as Langston washes and takes off his sweat-drenched shirt.
"There were a lot of logistical problems out there tonight," he says talking about Manchester's continuing stage. "And the road was wet."
The comedian pulls a clean taut knit shirt over his head, looks in the mirror, rearranges his hair. He has a light, muscular build, a strong chin and a brown mustache that makes him resemble Sonny Bono. "Half the people seemed confused, not knowing whether to laugh or not. I imagine the older folks came in here, took one look at me and said, 'What the heck is that guy doing?'
It's a question not easily answered. On stage, Langston is a hysterically funny bagged bundle of raw adrenaline, frantically moving from one side of the stage to another, arms giggling in all directions like eratic thunderbolts. On top of his head is a simple brown bag, two holes for one, one for a mouth. The pattern is a never ending, nonstop swirl of deliberately bad onesellers.
"Good evening ladies and gentleman, this is my bag, you can take it or leave it. I just flew in from Los Angeles and got air sick. Trouble was, nobody noticed. . . Can you guess where I buy my cloth's Shoes Fifth Avenue. . . I used to wear a vacuum cleaner bag, but that sucked. And now for a song. 'He amt heavy, he's my baggie.'
Much of the nation has. After his first appearance on *The gang* about three years ago, he found an almost phenomenal phenomenon with his
He runs around the stage, bangs his head with the microphone, pour beer down his shirt, eat a napkin, and generally goes crazy, punctuating line with a shrill quick laugh, reminiscent of ventriloquist Paul Winston's dummy knucklebade. About halfway through the act, Langton removes the bag to perform as himself. His first words are meant as a joke, but more than the comedian's face is revealed. "I can't believe," he tells the audience, "but you bought all that box crap."
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ragged buffoonery. Imitators galore popped up: an Unknown Disc Jockey, an Unknown Used Car Salesman, a University of Georgia student who ran for class president (and won) as the Unknown Candidate.
In the dressing room, a musician asks Langston to autograph a poster for a friend. The poster is the Unknown Comic's ultimate bag joke. Striking a reclining pose in the nude, Langston wears two bags, one as usual covers his head, the other is positioned a bit more strategically. What makes the picture ludicrous is the bag's size; it looks like it could hold a salami.
here you get. They are larger than largeots in the hotel restaurant eating breakfast, two pieces of whole wheat a loaf, and down large swallows of coffee, truly an unknown comic. When he tries to charge the meal to his room, the waitress asks him to prove he is a hotel guest. Two tables down, some other people recognize him and wave.
Langson, 34, came to the United States 15 years ago from Canada and joined the service. The only thing close to stage experience was a radio show he had in the Navy. "Music Mural Musical," she wrote.
"I called up Rowan and Martin's *laughed-in*, asked to speak to the producer and I wanted to be on the show. He asked me what I did, so I told him I could do it."
rays Murray-Go-Round of Music. After a fouryear tour in the NAV board an aircraft carrier that stayed in Europe, Langston moved to Los Angeles where he eventually landed a job as a computer operator. After four years of punching cards, he was ready to expand his horizons.
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Slowly, though, Langton managed to find work as a comic actor, appearing regularly in skits at Redd Foxx's Club and as a regular on The *Sommy and Cher* Show. When the show was retired, Langton had been pocketing about
As beautiful downown Burbank's greatest impressionist, he appeared four times on *Laugh in* during its last season in 1975, doing such套桌 as his fork, a grandfather clock and toothpaste. He was promptly fired from his computer program *From then on*, he remembers. I was a typical follylywood story. I didn't work for him.
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"I was interesting for a while, and something I always wanted to do. Then when I realized I had to change the toilet paper and buy all the booze, I grew tired of it in a hurry." In 1977, nearly broke, he ditched the club, Enter the Unknown Comic.
"I was in the actor's union and I knew if I could get on The Gong Show I could earn the $25 fee they are required to pay. My inspiration was simply money and embarrassment I needed the cash, but was not able to afford it," she said. "I found the simplest and cheapest disguise would be a rubber bag."
Langston was what is called a "Curtain Closer," a person who did something utterly ridiculous or insulted host Chuck Barris right before the curtains were closed on him. When Barris asked to him be a semi-regular on the show that features irregulars no one was more surprised than Langston: "I never expected to be on more than once."
He started taking the Unknown Comic act to different clubs around Los Angeles, which led to other jobs such as a character on The
at the Saturday morning kiddies, and a syndicated variety/talk show called *Everyday*. Though he hasn't yet taken the bag off during his television appearances, he finds that in lengthier live performances he must "the肌球 is really just one joke stump out. After about 15 minutes it starts to get old, he says." Pim also I also start to suffocate.
He rises from the coffee shop table and starts to walk. "Till tell you one thing that's really strange. I can go into a restaurant or sit down somewhere and hear people talking about the Unknown Comic. Once, I asked two girls what they thought of him and they said he was awful. Naturally I guess. Another time people were talking about him and I introduced myself and said I was the Unknown Comic. They said, 'Sure buddy.' I did not believe
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Langston reacts to those situations the way you would expect; he laughs them off. Comedy is his bag and the bag is his comedy and as his alter ego might put it, sack ceeps is just around the corner. "Let's face it," he says, "right now people are coming to see the Unknown Comic and not Murray Langston, but that should change soon." Then, having given his prediction, Murray Langston walks up a flight of stairs, across the long hotel lobby and seems to disappear in the crowd.
Bill Braunsheim is a Gainesville, Florida freelance writer who seeks fame and fortune to赚ugy any legal claim he desires to make.
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