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Raised by "Professor" McGargle (W. C. Fields, in his first starring role in a feature, before his shtick became sour-pickled), an itinerant magician, juggler, pickpocket, and shell-game sharper with a heart of gold, Sally becomes his whimsical, resourceful, and fiercely devoted sidekick — and thinks she's his daughter.
Four years after the show ended, Grenier is back with writer, director and show creator Doug Ellin and co-stars Kevin Connolly (as pragmatic manager E, Kevin Dillonn (goofy older brother Johnny and Jerry Ferraraa (devoted sidekick Turtle).
Herb, her devoted sidekick and accompanist, was at the piano, his gray hair in a ponytail and the rest of him in a Vegas-style silver suit.
He is famous for joking that he only became a singer because there was no money in poetry, while even his devoted sidekick Thomas has expressed misgivings at the "cheesy" synthesizers with which he smothered some of greatest songs on 1988's I'm Your Man.
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The wingwoman is the latest twist on the wingman, that devoted male sidekick who helps a buddy pick up women at bars and clubs.
A section devoted to movie sidekicks culminates with Frank Loesser's hilarious slang version of "Hamlet," originally sung by Betty Hutton ("the wackiest of the wacky," Ms. Marcovicci observed) in the movie "Red, Hot and Blue".
Devoted brother.
How devoted?
After Andress's Honey Rider, the first in a long series of euphemistically named women, is introduced on Crab Key, Leiter's faithful black sidekick is killed and Connery and Andress's characters are captured by the nefarious Asiatic Dr. No, the first in a long series of Bond super-villains devoted to "World domination.
Be devoted.
To its credit, "Set It Up" doesn't devote too much time to sidekicks.
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