Guff

I've given the New York Times a lot of guff over the years for their stubbon refusal to understand anything at all about the sitcom GREEN ACRES. It is only fitting, then, that I acknowledge the review they printed today of the TV show EVIL, in which the reviewer makes what I have determined after careful examination to be a neutral-to-positive allusion to GREEN ACRES. But! In the selfsame review, Roger Miller's uniquely sophisticated body of work is labeled with the regrettable and belittling umbrella term "novelty songs." Oh, Gray Lady! Why must you give with one hand and take with the other?