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Article: Crystal shines in HBO comedy // Comedian's performance stands up

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August 8, 1986
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On Location: Billy Crystal (STAR) (STAR) (STAR) (STAR) HBO presents a comedy starring Billy Crystal, Christopher Guest, Eugene Levy, Rob Reiner and Brother Theodore. Directed by Paul Flaherty and written by Crystal, Flaherty and Dick Blasucci. Showing from 9 to 10 p.m. tomorrow over local cable systems. Good morning, my darlings, and you know who you are.

Tomorrow we will all get together with a young man on the way up. What am I saying? He's not on the way up. He's already there, Mr. Mah-valous himself, Billy Crystal, a.k.a. Fernando Lamas, a.k.a. Sammy Davis Jr., a.k.a. Buddy Young Jr., a.k.a. Ricky. Hey, can you ba-leave it?

Well, you can if you are fortunate enough to have HBO ...

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