Word: actor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...interruptions for commercials. Often Sun was dulled by some too-precious UFA (Gerald McBoing Boing) cartoons, and the interplay between big, brash Mr. Sun and Father Time (spoken by the late Lionel Barrymore), Dr. Research (U.S.C.'s Shakespeare Scholar Dr. Frank Baxter) and a usually superfluous Fiction Writer (Actor Eddie Albert) was too often embarrassingly labored. But the photography, much of it shot through high-powered telescopes, was illuminating, especially on color TV, and it proved-once more-that the wonders of nature are far more effective than man-made TV wizardry. Choice shots: the seething surface...
...last week hysterically joined the weird posthumous cult of James Dean (TIME, Sept. 3), by featuring the late young actor on three shows and two networks. Harvest, starring Dorothy Gish and Ed Begley, reappeared on NBC's Robert Montgomery Presents; I'm a Fool, with Natalie Wood, on General Electric Theater (CBS); and The Unlighted Road was shown on CBS's Schlitz Playhouse of Stars for the third time. All three shows exploited the Dean legend for frankly commercial purposes. "He's hotter than anybody alive," cried one NBC executive. The pulse-takers backed...
...heavy on its feet. Main trouble: for a 90-minute musical, the music just wasn't very good. Best scene: Choreographer Rod Alexander's March of the Ill-Assorted Guards, with Newcomer Joel Grey, 24, who as Jack showed real promise in the difficult triple chore of actor, singer and dancer...
Died. Floyd Buckley, 82, Broadway's oldest performing actor (he played the mustached pappy of Mountain Boy Will Stockdale in No Time for Sergeants), who started trouping in 1899 witn Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show; of an aortic aneurism suffered after his 445th straight performance in Sergeants; in New York City...
...digging between hosts and visitors began at East Berlin Station, where the Russian train officer asked a Negro actor if he was German. "I'd make a funny-looking German," said the Porgy man. But the Russians were unconvinced. "Man," said the actor, "let's settle this misery." But the misery was never settled...