Word: bing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Jack Benny (Sun. 7 p.m., CBS). Guest: Bing Crosby...
...will soon be cracking 'Ketchum and fleece 'em.'" As he felt the warm sun, Hannagan said: "Call it Sun Valley." Soon his bathing beauties were wearing skis. Hannagan hauled out trainloads of celebrities (e.g., 20th Century-Fox's Darryl Zanuck, Author Ernest Hemingway and Crooner Bing Crosby), knowing that if they liked it others would follow. Zanuck especially liked it; he even made a movie called It Happened in Sun Valley...
...announced its annual list of the top box-office draws for 1952: 1) Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis (after only three years of moviemaking; they hit second place in 1951) 2) Gary Cooper (among the top ten for 13 years) 3) John Wayne (No. i in 1950 and 1951) 4) Bing Crosby (No. 5 last year; like Cooper, among the first ten for 13 years...
When Rudolf Bing ends his third season as general manager of the Metropolitan Opera next spring, he will have completely restyled twelve operas and achieved a good part of what he was hired to do, i.e., make Met productions a consistent pleasure to the eye as well as the ear. He has not been able to cure the Met's chronic deficits (last year's: about $475,000), but the directors are content. Last week, to nobody's surprise, they signed Bing up for another three years...
...Bing and Bob, dressed in kilts, sing one number called Hoot Mon. Dorothy Lamour models a succession of silk and cloth-of-gold sarongs designed by Hollywood's Edith Head. There is also a shipwreck, a headhunters' ceremonial, and an erupting volcano. Road to Bali does not always run a smooth comedy course, but it has some diverting detours...