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After his epic bust-up with Jerry Lewis in 1956, Crooner Dean Martin seemed to have little more to offer than any boozily pattering straight man with a boyish twinkle and a set of imitation Crosby-Como tonsils. Indeed, a lot of his enemies and some of his friends thought that Dino would likely end his career croaking in cocktail lounges from Far Rockaway to Skokie. But there seems to be quite a market for patter and twinkle these days. Variety reported last week that Martin, 49, from his TV variety series, record royalties, club dates and movie lucre, earns...
...PERRY COMO'S KRAFT MUSIC HALL (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). Angela ("Mame") Lansbury, Bob Newhart and the Young Americans cozy up with Perry in his first musical-variety special of the season...
...hayseed either. Arnold has never gone in for the spangled Western getups, nasal mewings and twangy guitars that have made country music so tiresome. He is more the Country Como, a slightly citified slicker in sports shirt and slacks, singing to arrangements laced with violins and a gently humming chorus. As such, he has attracted a broader popular following than any other singer in the old Nashville clan. Says he: "Once we cut out all the by-cracky nonsense and give respect to our music, then people will respect...
...Grammy awards - the Oscars of the record business-with Winners Roger Miller, Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass, Bill Cosby, Petula Clark, Jody Miller, the Anita Kerr singers, Duke Ellington and his band. Guests Tony Bennett and Robert Goulet perform the winning numbers. Bob Hope, Perry Como, Steve Allen, Don Adams, Godfrey Cambridge, Bill Dana and Henry Mancini are also on hand...
Host Martin is a slightly blue rhinestone-in-the-rough, fortunately set in an afterhours time slot (10-11 p.m., E.S.T.) when the youngsters are in bed and he need play nobody but himself. Como and Williams, he says, are for "the milk-and-cookies crowd. This is my show." His fans include Henry Miller and a satisfying 38% of the big-city Nielsen sample. As Actor Anthony Quinn analyzes Dino's appeal, "All of us seem to be plagued by responsibility, hemmed in by convention. Dean is the symbol of the guy who can go on, get drunk...