Word: berman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...BENTON BERMAN Bloomfield, Conn...
Thursday, October 29 BEWITCHED (ABC, 9-9:30 p.m.).* Guest Shelley Berman plays a candy king whose plans to incorporate broomstick uglies into his Halloween advertising campaign arouse the ire of housewifely Witch Samantha (Elizabeth Montgomery...
What makes The Best Man so good is the professional tone maintained in all of the photography, direction, sets, and, especially, the acting. Margaret Leighton as Russell's wife and Shelly Berman as an old army pal of Cant-well give brilliant performances along with Lee Tracy, in his recreaton of his Broadway role of the dying, crusty ex-President whose endorsement is sought by both candidates...
...habitual philanderer, it is obvious that Fonda will be too decent to retaliate by bringing up Robertson's own involvement in an Army homosexual scandal. Director Franklin Schaffner further dissipates the film's climactic confrontation scene with Robertson's old Army buddy, letting TV Comic Shelley Berman play the role mostly for laughs. Appearances by Edie Adams, Negro Singer Mahalia Jackson, Commentators Howard K. Smith and John Henry Faulk, and Vidal himself (as a Senator) range from agreeable to irrelevant. Margaret Leighton, at loose ends in a truncated role as Fonda's wife, somehow suggests that...
...incumbent Lanza is Sergio Franchi. Late of Cremona, he is the new favorite son of Las Vegas. And he opened last week as headliner at Manhattan's Copacabana. At Vegas' Hotel Sahara, he was not the headliner but merely a vocal lead-in to Comedian Shelley Berman-to Berman's considerable embarrassment, since Franchi kept getting standing ovations and multiple encores...