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...floor suite at the Britannia Beach. Workers loaded three flatbed trucks with his paraphernalia: a refrigerator, a hospital bed with railings, a hospital stand of the kind used to hold aloft blood plasma, six television sets, many cartons of purified water, motorized reclining chairs, numerous pots and pans. Said CBS-TV Producer Don Hewitt, who was vacationing on Nassau and happened to see part of the move: "It didn't look like a rich man's stuff. It looked like Archie Bunker's stuff. There was an old electric stove and electric heater and this sort...
Football Dynasty. It remained for CBS-TV Commentator Tom Brookshier to provide some comic relief. While conducting the ritual post-game interviews in the jubilant Cowboys' locker room, he suddenly found himself staring into the baleful eyes of Duane Thomas. Sportswriters had unsuccessfully been trying to interview Thomas for weeks. Making the least of the moment, the visibly flustered Brookshier posed a long convoluted question that seemed to translate: Are you as fast as you seem to be? "Evidently," said the unsmiling Thomas while his teammates roared with laughter. 'I'm nervous," admitted Brookshier. He tried another...
...delightfully improbable piece of casting, Raquel Welch is going to play that blank-eyed, block-bodied moppet of the comic strips, Little Orphan Annie, in a CBS-TV special called Funny Papers. Annie's superrich, superreactionary guardian, Daddy Warbucks, will be portrayed by Carroll O'Connor, the Archie Bunker of All in the Family. "We got into a little discussion about just how sexy Daddy Warbucks was," said Raquel. "We wondered how close he should get to Little Orphan Annie, and whether we should indicate that there might have been a little something going on between them...
Interviewed on CBS-TV's "Face the Nation," Rozelle said the tests were not restricted to players, but were also given to owners. He added that the owners established their innocence to the satisfaction of the league. Rozelle has previously fined and suspended players for gambling...
...expenses until, this year, he has brought MGM its first operating profit in four years ($7,835,000). Now, in cutting films as relentlessly as he has cut costs, he is presumably trying to capitalize on the commercial touch that he displayed back in his days as president of CBS-TV (among his hits: The Beverly Hillbillies and Petticoat Junction). Whether he can do so remains in doubt: MGM is still heavily in debt, and 50% of its features have not recovered costs...