Word: binge
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dreamboat (Mon. 9:30 p.m., ABC) is an unsponsored newcomer with songs by Doris Drew, music by Rex Maupin's orchestra, and some insult dialogue imitating the exchanges between Bing Crosby and Bob Hope, all pasted together on a storyline about a river showboat...
...General Manager Rudolf Bing, that was a "coldblooded contract breach"-and a glittering example of the Met-comes-last attitude that he has determined to stamp out. In addition to firing Merrill ("for good"), Bing let Hollywood and TV know the correct billing for the Brooklyn baritone: "Formerly of the Metropolitan Opera...
After sitting on his plans for weeks and enjoying all the rumors, Rudolf Bing this week announced his plans for the Met next season. Showman Bing's biggest news...
...creating a separate television department (under veteran Stage Director Herbert Graf). Operas for TV will be produced in a studio, rather than in the unsuitable Met, with "new staging techniques, maybe some new operas, and maybe some new singers." The Met's TV productions will be sold (Bing hopes) to a commercial sponsor, just like any other TV show...
...know," he said with a glance at his friend Rudolf Bing, who had come to hear Manon, "now that the Met has an alert director, I have to be very alert...