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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...
Every clod has its silver lining, and for each insultee there are thousands who would not light a stove without consulting the proprietor. Jackie Onassis is a devoted customer, as are Johnny Carson, Nelson Rockefeller, Danny Kaye and the Kennedys. The Waldorf Astoria Hotel buys supplies from the store; so does Pan American Airways...
...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...