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...season since then, the hay haters have hopefully predicted that the boom would soon bust. Yet every season it has been bigger than the last. Last week eight of the top ten shows on TV * were horse operas. The networks have saddled up no fewer than 35 of the bangtail brigade, and 30 of them are riding the dollar-green range of prime night time (from 7:30 to 10 p.m.). Independent stations too have taken to the field with every wring-tailed old oat snorter they could rustle out of Hollywood's back pasture. This season, while other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERNS: The Six-Gun Galahad | 3/30/1959 | See Source »

Dean Martin is a handsome, 31-year-old ex-millhand, ex-pug and ex-croupier in a casino, with a post-Crosby baa in his baritone. The zanier half of the comedy is furnished by Jerry Lewis, a 23-year-old with horse teeth and a bangtail bob, who is probably the most precocious comic to come out of the wings since Milton Berle was a Wunderkind. Young Jerry already has good control of half-a-dozen comedy styles. He can deliver a gag, dance & sing, play the sappy adolescent ("If I go wit' girls, I get pimples...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Talk of Show Business | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

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