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From the original Promised Land this week comes the first Israeli musical, To Live Another Summer-To Pass Another Winter, a lighthearted treatment of the generation gap as well as the struggle with the Arabs. The forthcoming F. Jasmine Addams is Carson McCullers' The Member of the Wedding set to music, and Truman Capote's The Grass Harp will come twanging back on the scene with Barbara Cook as the star. Still another musical revival is Candide, of 1956 vintage, with music by Leonard Bernstein and the totally ingenuous hero courtesy of Voltaire...
...Howells, he said, "told me that if I was prepared to be as unpleasant as most of the great conductors, I should become one. I did not want anything to do with unpleasantness, so I went into politics." ··· Muffin was missing, and Joanne (ex-Mrs. Johnny) Carson was beside herself. A doctor administered sedation, but Joanne still wandered up and down Sunset Boulevard searching for her three-pound, Yorkshire terrier. Enter Joanne's blind date, TV Executive Tom Tannenbaum, who was promptly pressed into service as a Muffin hunter. Some time around dawn they found...
...other talk-show hosts are nowhere near the complete man that Cavett is. As to their sex appeal-Griffin is a Boy Scout leader, Frost an ulcer-ridden, sweatless advertising executive, and Carson a dissipated shoe salesman...
...proved some physical prowess by becoming expert in gymnastics, but his real world was all make-believe. Like Johnny Carson, a transplanted Nebraskan, young Cavett took up magic. He gave shows in his basement, and by the time he was a teenager, he was pulling rubber chickens out of his hat for pleasure and a fee before P.T.A. groups. He had his own weekly radio drama show on the local station while he was still in high school. He was living his show business fantasies in the highest style available to a boy, but that was not enough...
There are times when Cavett envisions taking over The Tonight Show if Johnny Carson should ever retire. Then there are occasions when Dick feels like buying a long-term Eurailpass to oblivion. Running his show, he says, "is really like an actor being in repertory but where in one day?one performance?you do scenes from a drama, a farce, a low comedy and a tragedy. It's a satisfaction in one way in that you get to use all the arrows in your quiver, or strings in your bow, or bats in your belfry. But it's also very...