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Dates: during 1960-1969
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High Time (20th Century-Fox) is a fast flashy funny 103-minute $3,000,000 CinemaScope De Luxe Color parody of an old-fashioned college musical, released just in time to catch the back-to-school business. It stars Bing Crosby-back on campus as a 51-year-old freshman. He is the owner of a chain of 1,433 restaurants who decides to let somebody else mind the store while he gets the education he could not afford...
...supporting actors are expert, especially Tony Randall, who plays Montand's pressagent with an accurate blend of servility and fresh-faced eagerness. One reason why the film, although consistently pleasant, is only fitfully funny may be a plague now widespread in Hollywood movies. Milton Berle, Gene Kelly and Bing Crosby appear in brief "cameo" parts as themselves (they are supposed to be teaching Montand how to joke, dance and sing), and whatever disbelief has been suspended comes crashing to earth. Miltie, Gene and Bing are good fellows, but farceurs should know enough to come in out of the reality...
...Groaner Bing Crosby decided to dispose of one of his five domains (including two cattle ranches), mostly because he is kept too busy trying to live on them all. For sale: Bing's 14-room seashore mansion, built in 1948, overlooking California's Pebble Beach Golf Course. Asking price: $250,000. Since the Crosby clan operates as a sort of junior cartel, the real estate agent on the deal is Mary Rose Pool, Bing's sister...
...Jimmy Boyd, 20, the freckled Tin Pan Alley flash of 1952, who sold more than 2,200,000 raspy records of 1 Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus, has been an occasional TV and film actor since; and Yvonne Craig, 22, a rising cinemactress who recently completed High Time with Bing Crosby; in Dallas...
...baseball Galbreath is also looking for a champion. He plunked down $400,000 in 1946 to become a member of a four-man syndicate (another member: Bing Crosby) that bought the ailing Pittsburgh Pirates. Four years later he got control (70%), took over as president and brought in Branch Rickey as general manager. Rickey signed up hundreds of young players, but the cure was slow. In the past decade the Pirates have usually finished way down, and Galbreath tossed in $1,500,000 to make up losses. This year things are different. At week's end the Pirates were...