Word: binge
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Metropolitan Opera's Margaret Webster hoped "that the [opening night] audience will not look for anything especially startling or different in [our new] Aïda, for I don't think they will find it." That, as General Manager Rudolf Bing later remarked, was only because Margaret Webster had never seen Aïda before. To him, "it looks completely different-and I have seen it before...
Kansas-born Frank Luther has been a cowboy, a Bible singer, a preacher (Disciples of Christ), a folk singer, an operatic tenor and a songwriter (Barnacle Bill the Sailor). But he is most likely to be remembered as "the Bing Crosby of the Sandpile...
...with sincere gratitude that we take this opportunity to honor Mr. Bing- ham. Through his long term at the head of Harvard's athletic program, Mr. Bingham has built a vast intramural system which allows each student a chance to participate in a team sport. This, in our opinion, is the most important phase of athletics, and for its success we can thank one man, William J. Bingham...
...which employs a timesaving three-camera technique (TIME, March 6, 1950). Broidy Productions (owned by a brother of the head of Monogram Pictures) makes Wild Bill Hickok films for TV, and turns out a 30-minute religious show with such titles as Sister Martha Bets 'Em Big. Bing Crosby Enterprises hopes to captivate televiewers with a new series featuring a cast of chimpanzees enacting Sherlock Holmes thrillers...
Here Comes the Groom (Paramount) puts Bing Crosby and Producer-Director Frank Capra up to their oldest tricks and ought to amuse all but those optimistic moviegoers who dare to hope for new ones. Crosby, carrying his breeziness this time to gale proportions, plays a newspaperman home from France with two adopted war orphans. Unless he can get a wife to mother them, they will be deported within the week. But his longtime fiancee (Jane Wyman), tired of waiting, had finally decided to marry Multimillionaire Franchot Tone. To woo Jane back just in time to disrupt a colossal wedding ceremony...