Word: binge
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Modern pressagents are effete, Variety complained not long ago, but last week the boys seemed determined to disprove the horrendous charge. During the shooting of Bing Crosby's Say One for Me, platoons of short-skirted, black-stockinged extras served champagne to the press. Linda Darnell got herself Page One hypnotized to learn a part. And Brigitte Bardot announced she is going to Moscow for the premiere of her forthcoming movie (in which she is fully clothed from first reel to last). Finally, the Motion Picture Division of U.C.L.A. invited Elizabeth Taylor to be a guest lecturer. Her subject...
...part of Lady Macbeth, which was to have been sung by Maria Callas before Rudolf Bing fired her (TIME, Nov. 17), went to radiant Viennese Soprano Leonie Rysanek, who in her Met debut showed off an unusually pure and beautifully rounded voice and considerable acting talent. Her only fault was that she scarcely fitted Verdi's bill ("I would have Lady Macbeth ugly and wicked ... her voice should be that of a devil"). For the most part, Soprano Rysanek seemed more like an ambitious Org Man's tender helpmate than a driven woman goading her weak husband...
...Boone Show (ABC, 9-9:30 p.m.). Bing's youngest, at five months, still lacks the necessary laryngeal nodes, but the first shift (Gary, Dennis, Philip and Lindsay) groan as only the Crosby clan...
...rolling around in its prodigious socket like a cannon ball in a bathtub, the fangs dripping like bloody stalactites. Luckily, the wicked magician (Torin Thatcher) puts a whammy on the brute, but then he also puts a whammy on the beautiful princess (played by Kathryn Grant, billed as "Mrs. Bing Crosby"). Unfortunately, the audience will not get much of a look at the young celebrity. When the magician gets through with her, she is only 3½ in. tall, and after that she spends most of her time shut up in a tiny, jewel-studded...
PEBBLE BEACH, Calif.--Julius Boros and Billy Maxwell unleached birdie barrages Thursday and tied for the opening day lead with five-under-par 67 in Bing Crosby's $50,000 Golf Tournament...