My Big Break

My Big Break

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Sometimes, getting your big break isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. A comedy duo lands the gig that can make them famous—the Ed Sullivan Show at the height of Sullivan’s popularity—and they bomb. A third-grader gets his big chance to please his mother and push his drunken father out of the picture. And other stories.