Word: adame
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...MILTON BERLE SHOW (ABC, 9-10 p.m.). Pushing the network's own products, Berle includes among his guests Phyllis (The Pruitts of Southampton) Diller; Adam (Batman) West and Van (The Green Hornet) Williams...
Armpit .38. In the aftermath of Atlanta's riot, it became clear that the principal victim was the Negro cause. Up north, Harlem's Representative Adam Clayton Powell had only encomiums for Carmichael's style of leadership. At a press conference publicizing a black power convention scheduled for Oct. 15, Powell ranted: "Even Jesus did not tell you what to do after you have been struck on both cheeks." As for himself, Powell confided he invariably packs a Colt .38 under his armpit...
...Mobil. In tires, the home team (Dunlop) has about half of the market. Trying to catch up, Goodyear has announced plans to expand its plants in England and Scotland, and Firestone will build a second plant in Wales. Even now, says Firestone's British division chairman, William A. Adam, the company is working "at 110% of capacity...
Since nearly every line of dialogue strikes a familiar blue note, the only way to justify still another fictional show-biz biography is to link it to the color question. Adam is a specialty act salted with social protest. It is played at a feverish pitch by Sammy Davis Jr., who has surrounded himself with such Negro performers as Ossie Davis, Louis Armstrong and, as the girl in his cheering section, a sunburst of shy sepia charm named Cicely Tyson. A handful of jazzmen (Mel Torme, Kai Winding, Nat Adderly) make the score swing but aren't much help...
...plot, the film boasts a CORE sampling of injustices that supposedly explain the color-conscious hero's heavy drinking and bad temper. Seldom is there any doubt that what makes Adam run is Sammy. Carpentered into the story line are all the predictable solo turns-a crying jag, a tender love episode, a scene in which he wields a broken bottle to make his agent grovel, and a reprise in which Davis crawls across a restaurant floor to shine Lawford's shoes. There is a semifinal glimpse of the doomed genius staggering through city streets, climaxed...