Word: actor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...medium that once saw Bishop Sheen and Arthur Godfrey nominated for the same award ("Outstanding Personality of the Year") had changed not a bit. The academy this time managed to match lightfooted Fred Astaire with Actor Christopher Plummer and 14-year-old Robert Crawford in the race for "Best Single Performance by an Actor." Winner: Hoofer Astaire. (Astaire also won eight other awards, exactly 27 lbs. of Emmys, all for his memorable song-and-dance show last October.) The catalogue of categories seemed endless. On and on it went, until one irritated critic was moved to ask: "Is there...
...most famous head of hair in the nation last week belonged neither to Senator John Kennedy nor to Pianist Artur Rubinstein, but to a 25-year-old television actor named Edward Byrnes, who in three short weeks has become the hottest new property on records. The source of Byrnes's top-of-the-head fame is a peculiarly wolfish ditty called Kookie, Kookie (Warner Bros.) in which Byrnes sings scarcely a note. His contribution is a series of jive lingo replies to a marshmallow-voiced girl who implores him over and over again: "Kookie, Kookie, lend me your comb...
...inspiration for Kookie, Kookie comes from the character of the same name created by Manhattan-born Actor Byrnes on the TV series 77 Sunset Strip. In the show, Byrnes plays a parking-lot attendant who continually combs his hair as an antidote to thought. Warner Bros, noticed how teen-age televiewers dug Kookie, so it signed Byrnes to cut a disk and set a comb manufacturer to turning out "Kookie Kombs" by the thousands. When a Los Angeles disk jockey casually asked his listeners "Should Kookie cut his hair?" he promptly got 5,000 replies (100-to-1 against cutting...
...lolitapalooza she invariably plays, but everybody else is excellent. Franco Interlenghi is fierce and touching as the heroine's No. 2 lover. Actress Feuillère, as the wife, subtly interprets a shrewd Frenchwoman who understands what is happening, but cannot make it hurt any less. And Actor Gabin is stonily superb as the cynical old sugar daddy who knows he will have to pay plenty for his last fling, but doesn't really mind. He has the money...
Divorce Revealed. Rod Steiger, 34, method actor, TV's original Marty, the cinema's current Al Capone and the malevolent bandit in Broadway's Rashomon; by Sally Gracie, 30, actress; after six years of marriage (mostly in separation), no children; in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, in January...