Word: actor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first began-25 years, 81,000,000 registrants and 13,500,000 inductees ago. There are the predictable complaints about deferment of such people as New York Jets Quarterback Joe Namath (4F with a legitimately bum knee) and Lynda Bird Johnson's boy friend, $200,000-a-year Actor George Hamilton (3A because he is his mother's sole support...
ITEM: Bill Cosby won an award for his performance on I Spy. Granted, Cosby is a fine actor, and he certainly deserves recognition. But let's get Programming to find some Negro of our own and get him written into one of our own dramatic series; perhaps he could be a gardener, or something, who makes witty but penetrating philosophical remarks. (NOTE: He should not, repeat not, play a "heavy.") Meanwhile, Programming should begin work immediately devising an hour series about American Indians or some other noncontroversial minority group...
Divorced. By Kim Novak, 33, Hollywood package often undone by her films (Kiss Me, Stupid, The Notorious Landlady): Richard Johnson, 38, dour British actor and her co-star in The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders; on uncontested grounds of mental cruelty (he refused to live in the U.S.), after 15 months of marriage, no children; in Salinas, Calif...
...stage and owning it. As Mame's actressy pal, Beatrice Arthur is a crafty comedienne, a woman who delivers a line as if someone had put lye in her martinis. And Frankie Michaels as young Patrick has the charm of an acting boy rather than a boy actor. It is good to have the season end not with a bomb but a winner...
Surely the most interesting bernatorial race is California's. As this is written, the primaries have not been held, and the final nominees are not yet known. But if the race turns out to be between Governor Pat Brown and actor Ronald Reagan, then Vietnam will certainly creep into the expected discussions of the state budget, water policy, Berkeley, and Watts, Reagan, despite his public relations firm's efforts, is more a right-winger than a moderate in most voters' eyes. He takes a hard line on Vietnam, and his election as Governor would be the biggest hawk victory...