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...SHELLEY BERMAN New York City...
Perry Como's Music Hall (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). Peggy Lee and Shelley Berman enliven the Comotose, always dependable proceedings. Color...
Insecurity Forever. At acting school and later in stock, Berman appeared in everything from Shakespeare to Chekhov to Charley's Aunt. Classmate Geraldine Page remembers Shelley's "potent personality, which sometimes bent the plays out of focus." As the clerk in Saint Joan, "he was so startlingly effective you thought it became almost a play about...
...married Sarah Herman, another acting-school classmate. Failing to get work in the theater, they lived on unemployment insurance and on his odd jobs-social director at a Florida hotel, Arthur Murray dance instructor, Los Angeles cabbie (three rear-end collisions in four weeks). What started the Berman spiral upward was a job with Chicago's talented, improvising Compass Players (TIME, March 21), where, alongside his friends Mike Nichols and Elaine May, he developed his own style of comedy and began to grow into a great performer. He loathes being compared to other comedians, particularly the "sick" ones. Says...
Childless, Berman and his wife now move in the center of a large professional family that includes three types of manager, a lawyer, an advance man, two secretaries, two flacks and a valet (to try to keep those sleeves straight). Although awed by his income, what he really wants is to be an actor, and he vows he will yet conquer Broadway. "My insecurity goes on and on and on," he says. "If 5,000 people were laughing and one didn't like me, it would bother me. And I can't relax. If I knock...