Word: bergen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...when Wyman replaced Paley as chairman. Though Paley publicly treated the transition as a natural passing of the baton, in private he resented the move. The CBS founder had always taken an active role in network programming -- hiring away top NBC stars like Jack Benny and Edgar Bergen in the 1940s, advocating such high-quality shows as All in the Family and M*A*S*H in the 1970s. Now he was being forced to the sidelines...
...founded by William Shakespeare Berger, a wealthy businessman and amateur ventriloquist who collected dummies from 1916 until his death in 1972. In one room of the museum, scores of dummies sit on folding metal chairs. The effect, on anyone who came along in the high celebrity days of Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy and Paul Winchell and Jerry Mahoney and Senor Wences too, is bizarre. Lacking animation, still, with their eyes wide as silver dollars and their goofy grins, they lend the room an air of the grotesque...
...from Dallas who was in the touring company of the Broadway hit Sugar Babies, explained this frame of mind: "If you convince yourself that the dummy is really alive, that he is a separate entity, it works much better onstage. It is much more convincing to the audience. Even Bergen, who was far from crazy, talked about Charlie as if he were alive. However, it does get a little spooky sometimes if you let yourself get carried away with...
...trusted member of Gotti's Gambino crime family had secretly taped conversations between the capo and his confederates over a 30-month period. The informant, a self-styled former hit man named Dominick Lofaro, was brazen enough to carry a concealed wire right into Gotti's lair, the Bergen Hunt and Fish Club in Ozone Park, N.Y. His cooperation with authorities marked the first time that a Mafia "soldier" had ever worked as an informant while on active duty. The intelligence coup, said one New York City police officer, was "like penetrating the Kremlin...
...against the arch curves of French Designer Claude Montana or the dramatic drapery of Japan's Issey Miyake, Lauren's work is stick-in-the-mud. But Lauren sticks to what he knows and has never claimed to be wildly original or abstract. Says a longtime fan, Actress Candice Bergen: "He incorporates the things you've loved for years. I'm basically not one who is comfortable in massive shoulder pads or the trendy things...