Word: carson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CARSON McCULLERS should have left her first novel untitled. Its story of a deaf-mute who becomes a confessor for an odd assortment of searching, lost human beings has in my opinion been generally overrated. Her book is good, but it hardly lives up to the promise of its haunting, haiku-like title -- The Heart is a Lonely Hunter...
...BEAUTIFUL PHYLLIS DILLER SHOW (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Phyllis Diller and her cohorts Norm Crosby, Rip Taylor and The Curtain Calls welcome Johnny Carson, Rowan and Martin, Sonny and Cher and the Pearce Sisters to their first show of the season. Premiere...
...Johnny Carson last week told of the lady who went into labor at about the same time the airplane she was on went into a holding pattern over New York. Cracked Carson: "She wasn't even pregnant when she got on." Flying through the Washington-Chicago-New York area known as the Golden Triangle has not yet reached that extreme. Still, delays have become so bad that the Federal Aviation Administration last week proposed limits on traffic at major airports in the triangle to make air travel more manageable. The rules are meant to cut down...
...HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER. Poetry always suffers in translation, and Carson McCullers' poetic novel is no exception to the rule. Yet the film has some worthwhile aspects: Alan Arkin's marvelous portrayal of a mute whose silence is deafening, and Sondra Locke as a poignant antiheroine...
...thought that Johnny Carson is too cheap to buy water skis. It's just that his producers thought the gimmick of using two guys instead of two skis was too good to pass up. Which explains what Johnny was doing skimming around on the rib cages of two skiing champs, Dave Dershimer and Joe Powroznik, while filming his first TV special, "Johnny Carson Discovers Cypress Gardens." The great Carsoni, who has not been water-skiing for nearly twelve years, even did his opening monologue riding around the lake on the shoulders of two skiers before they dumped him unceremoniously...