Word: bummed
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...Karlheinz Stockhausen had spliced their first tape. But partly because his output is so sparse (eleven compositions in 40 years), partly because his European counterparts had electronic equipment to work with before he did, Varèse for a long time remained, by his own definition, "a musical bum." Large-scale recognition did not come until 1958, when his Poème Electronique, his only completely noninstrumental composition, thundered twelve times a day over 400 loudspeakers in a Brussels Fair pavilion designed by his friend Le Corbusier (TIME cover...
Sorrowfully, Jackie Gleason heaved himself upright and looked at Gene Kelly. The two are in Paris trying to film a movie called Gigot, about a lovable deaf-mute bum whose best friend is an alley cat. In the first scene, the cat is supposed to hear an alarm clock, wake up, and then rouse his deaf ami by licking his face. But the first dozen Parisian alley cats had flunked their screen tests. Gleason, who plays Gigot, swabbed off the sardine oil and discussed things with Actor-Director Kelly. Importing trained cats from Hollywood would cost almost...
...walks like a man. Their collision has resulted in a good deal of confusion and. somewhat surprisingly, a respectable amount of progress. During a typical day Gleason may record a song (he has also written the film's music), chat with Ambassador James Gavin, get his three-day bum's beard trimmed with special three-day-beard scissors, and audition little girls to play opposite Gigot (the female "lead must speak English with a slight French accent and be five to eight years old). Gleason's role is pantomime, and must be choreographed for the benefit...
...islands. On one visit to Ithaca, he spent a morning chatting with some old men who had no suspicion of his sinister scholarly mission. One of the oldsters suddenly stared out to sea and said: "They say he still turns up around here, a soldier, a seaman, an old bum or something." Fitzgerald did not crowd his scholar's luck by asking any questions, but accepted gratefully this intimation that Homer's world was not dead-nor his Odysseus-in the hearts of the modern Greek...
...return professionally to his home city until he could play among Manhattan's top brass-at the Copacabana. Now back for the second time (the first was in June), he showed up for work one evening last week in a two-tone Rolls-Royce, slipped a sidewalk bum an easy fin, and led his wife inside...