Word: carsons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shallowness he finds among so many "stars." He thinks of himself as an actor-writer-comic; yet he works best as a ringmaster of conversation heightened by the prodding of an acute mind?free associating, Perelmanesque, almost surrealistic. He does battle five times a week with Johnny Carson's The Tonight Show, which claims an audience more than twice the size of Cavett's (7.7 million viewers v. 3.4 million...
...late-night television. Those who dig good-natured buffoonery and the chitchat of West Coast showfolk go for Competitor Merv Griffin. Viewers who want to see briskly organized quasi-journalistic interviews watch David Frost's excellent syndicated talk show, a two-time Emmy Award winner. Those who tune in Carson do so mainly to watch a consummate comedian scoring off guests who might as well be dummies, and often are. Cavett lacks Frost's effusiveness and Carson's one-man showmanship; his fans turn him on because he and his guests tend to be the most interesting...
Plastic surgery is practically a branch of show business, but few showfolk talk about their operations on the Johnny Carson Show. British Actress Sarah Miles, however, didn't mind telling 7,200,000 viewers: "I had an ear job." Her ears, she said, "not only stuck out, but they had no shape at all. They used to flap in the wind." Miss Miles' now unflappable ears have given her considerable self-confidence. Asked whom she would choose to be alone with for six months, she said: "Hitler. If I had six months, I might be able to corrupt...
...chronology and scope, Miss Pullar's bibliography runs from Juvenal's Satires to Rachel Carson's Silent Spring. Tracing the vagaries of English appetite from the Roman occupation to the present, she has written a history of taste in the fullest sense of the word...
Pioneer Erected by Pathfinder He led the way Kit Carson comrades of Soldier Died...