Word: carsons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mainly, Albee has indulged his playwriting defects. Having a very weak gift for plot construction, he took to adapting novels ranging from Carson McCullers' to James Purdy's. One such "adaption," Everything in the Garden (TIME, Dec. 8, 1967), was rather more effective in its original form as written by Britain's Giles Cooper than it was as rewritten by Albee, or so some critics said. After creating the wily priest and the slandering lawyer in Tiny Alice, the play that immediately followed Virginia Woolf, Albee no longer seemed able to invent any characters that possessed dramatic...
Television viewers who tuned into ABC's new talk show AM America recently learned from Co-Host Stephanie Edwards that it just happened to be Millard Fillmore's birthday. On his NBC show, Johnny Carson from time to time reminds his audience that it is, say, Patrick Henry's birthday or Lily of the Valley Day in Luxembourg...
...wisecracking girl friend -and offstage wife-Mary Livingstone is the original of Rhoda. Don Wilson, the pompous announcer, can be seen in Ted Knight's role on the Mary Tyler Moore show. The drunken bandleader, Phil Harris, is a 100-proof version of Ed McMahon, Johnny Carson's sidekick. Rochester, the sardonic Negro valet, is the granddaddy of all the servants, black and white, who have hilariously put down their employers since the invention of the vacuum tube...
Robert C. Carson Naples...
...undergraduate at the University of Southern California (class of '71), Eric Cohen was so bored by some professors that he fell asleep in class. Now he is doing his best to keep the current student body from dozing off too. In fact, Cohen, a gagwriter for Johnny Carson and NBCTV, has been hired by U.S.C. to write jokes for professors to use in their lecture courses...