Word: comic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only general, but they are also tantalizing enough to constitute a basis for debate within the networks. NBC Audience Measurement Vice President Paul Klein and MGM-TV's sales coordinator, Herman Keld, argue that McLuhan is essentially right. Keld, for example, predicted that Joey Bishop, a "hot" nightclub comic who comes on strong, was bound to start out at a disadvantage in audience ratings when he went on the late-night air for ABC against "cool" Johnny Carson. He was right; and when Bishop decided to switch to a low-key approach, his ratings improved...
...filmy thing on a day when everyone's been to church and all." After he signed Elvis Presley for a record $50,000 for three appearances, Sullivan would not allow the camera to show the singer's gyrating pelvis. "He may be a purist," says Comic Jack...
...series of compressed vignettes, punctuated by wild car chases to the accompaniment of Flatt & Scruggs banjo music, the film describes the criminal career of Bonnie. Clyde and the friends and relations they collect along the way. Their initially clumsy and comic efforts at robbing banks become increasingly bloody as the film proceeds, until the imagery of incredible violence is the only real visual counterpoint to the desolate image of the landscape. And this is violence unlike that of any other film. Instead of the crisp theatricality and well-timed effects of a movie like The Dirty Dozen, Penn forces...
...homespun hippie who can parry with Stokely Carmichael or trade one-liners with Jack E. Leonard. Though the caliber of guests only occasionally rises to a Bob Hope, it is also true that Douglas' program has become a profitable showcase for new talent. The producers boast that Comic Bill Cosby got his first national TV break on the show and that Barbra Streisand did her bit there a year before Funny Girl. A good deal of the show time, however, is devoted to warmed-over smorgasbord: Arthur Godfrey demonstrates his recipe for beans de luxe, Cassius Clay trades...
Ringo, a thoroughly unpretentious fellow, is also the most innately comic temperament; he is the catalyst, and also the deflator, of the crew. Most mysterious of all-and possibly most important-is John, the creative mainspring, who has lately grown strangely brooding and withdrawn; he is more thoughtful and tough-minded than the others, reads voraciously. His telephone is usually answered by a tape-recorded voice, asking the caller to leave a message. But Lennon rarely returns calls, instead, so the story goes, plays the tapes over and over with maniacal glee...