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JACK BENNY'S BIRTHDAY SPECIAL (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Ann-Margret pops out of the cake while Lucille Ball, Lawrence Welk, Dan Blocker, Dennis Day and Jerry Lewis clown around to make Jack forget he's - you guessed it - 39. Repeat...
...surprising conclusion, considering the picture that Ethel presented while her husband was alive. In the giddy days of the New Frontier and after, she was known as the prankish clown of the clan, the exuberant athlete ready for any gambol, the nonstop, miniskirted supermom who exemplified all the headlong, slightly manic "vigah" of the Kennedys. Ethel was the hostess who presided gleefully when Arthur Schlesinger Jr. was pushed, fully clad, into the swimming pool at a Hickory Hill party. She was the mistress of a wacky ménage that included even more animals than children?Brumus, the huge Newfoundland...
Born in 1935, Chaim Topol began his show-business career as a barracks clown in the Israeli army. His performances became such a morale factor that headquarters ordered him to be an actor. He has been following those orders ever since. Topol's most important future role is Tevye in the film version of Fiddler on the Roof...
Someone offstage is pronounced guilty of a series of unintelligible crimes, and in marches the prisoner, to be thrust into his cell by a buffoon of a turnkey with baggy pantaloons and clown makeup. Suddenly the two of them are waltzing around the cell together to appropriate music. The whole play is like that-sudden and senseless as a dream...
...Brothers Marx found themselves the darlings of the Intelligentsia. Harpo became a visitor to the Algonquin Round Table; Groucho corresponded with T. S. Eliot in a number of letters that showed that he thought of himself as a cerebral clown. But the old vaudeville team had begun its film career comparatively late in life-in 1929, at the time of their first film, The Cocoanuts, Chico was 40-and by the late '40s their creative energy had faded. To a whole generation of television viewers, the Marxes are at once as familiar and as obscure as the Smith Brothers...