Word: binges
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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DANNY THOMAS SPECIAL (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).* Bing Crosby joins Danny on "The Road to Lebanon," with Claudine Auger. Repeat...
...engineer too: Banker George S. Moore, 65, longtime treasurer of the Met, who succeeded Anthony Bliss as president. Moore, who likes to arrive at his office at Manhattan's First National City Bank ahead of the money, took to telephoning Met General Manager Ru dolf Bing by 8:15 a.m. Wailed Bing, after one such early-morning dingaling: "George, please! Why don't you go make your first million for the day before you call...
Ninety minutes long, in color and with a theme song groaned by Bing Crosby, Yorty's show on its first two exposures proved at least that a quirkily provocative off-screen performer can upstage Donald Duck on the air. Sam bantered with Art Linkletter ("I don't want to embarrass you, Art, but what are you running for?" "I'm running for home in a few minutes"); consoled Neighbor Tippi Hedren on the horrendous reviews of her new movie, A Countess from Hong Kong; helped Pierre Salinger, a sometime political foe, plug both his employer (Continental Airlines...
Artist Marc Chagall believes in "God, Mozart and color." The Metropolitan Opera's Rudolf Bing believes in Mozart, Chagall and boxoffice. Thus, when the Met scheduled a new production of The Magic Flute, it seemed only right that the 79-year-old Chagall should design the sets and costumes. No matter that he had never before tried his hand at opera; The Magic Flute is fantasy, and in that misty, mystical medium Chagall is the original beautiful dreamer. "He is so very right for it," said Bing...
...Bing was so very wrong. There are two fundamental ways of approaching The Magic Flute: either as a symbolic, deeply philosophical work, as Oskar Kokoschka attempted (unsuccessfully) in his stolidly realistic sets for the Lyric Opera of Chicago in November; or as straight fairy tale, as Beni Montresor tried (successfully) in his lavish scenery for the New York City Opera in October. Chagall strove to incorporate both approaches and achieved neither. He viewed the opera in terms of color, reiterating that the total effect of the scenery should be "like a bouquet of flowers." When the opera finally opened last...