Word: carson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Both of these one-acters have been produced with care and intelligence. Wayne Carson has restaged Elaine May's original off-Broadway direction of the plays, and the sets are duplicates of those of the enormously successful New York production...
CHRYSLER PRESENTS THE BOB HOPE SPECIAL (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). Top bananas by the bunch on the first show of Hope's 20th video season: Sid Caesar, Wally Cox, Steve Allen, Johnny Carson and Buddy Hackett are but a few of the two dozen promised...
Novelist Jacqueline Susann deftly turned the other cheek on Johnny Carson's Tonight Show, disappointing the sleepless millions who awaited her delayed reply to Truman Capote's allegation that she looked, among other things, "like a truck driver in drag." As the author of The Love Machine went through her chat with Carson, the subject never came up. Just as she was to leave, her host asked innocently: "What do you think of Truman?" "Truman . . . Truman," she considered gravely. "I think history will prove he was one of the best Presidents...
...conversational, a listener rather than a doer. "My most important task is to open people up verbally and extract information from them," he says. "I sit there as the middleman between guest and audience, asking questions I think the viewers would ask if they were in my place." While Carson is content to operate from New York City studios, with only occasional expeditions to the West Coast, Griffin insists that he will continue to get out of the studio and out of New York. "We want to show the viewer other parts of the world than a desk and three...
...Garroway, Steve Allen and Jack Paar popularized years ago. As Griffin sees it, "With three of us in there every week night, it will be a game of 'Pick Your Host.' " Or more likely, "Pick Your Guest." During premiere week, a dial spinner could have tuned in Carson confronting Groucho Marx, Bill Cosby, Romy Schneider, Lucille Ball, Phyllis Diller, and Rowan and Martin. Bishop trotted out such West Coast Establishmentarians as Ruth Gordon, George Burns, Tony Bennett, Milton Berle, Eddie Fisher, Rick (né Ricky) Nelson and Ed Ames. Griffin went for such familiar names as Woody Allen...