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...Perry Como and Andy Williams proved the rule, though their effortlessness had to be rehearsed. To produce a 60-minute program, Como tapes for as much as two days, Williams for up to eleven hours. Now both of them are being outrelaxed by a competitor so genuinely casual that he can't be bothered with a real rehearsal or even a retake. As a result, The Dean Martin Show is hoisting itself ever higher in the ratings and is the closest thing on the air to the free and easy spontaneity of old-fashioned live television...
Such idiosyncrasies of taste make the export business as tricky as it is lucrative. The Flintstones are No. 1 in Sweden and the favorite viewing of Rhodesia's Sir Roy Welensky, but they were ignominiously reduced to background characters in a fly-spray commercial in Italy. Perry Como hit a clinker on Germany's Infratest ratings, Andy Williams on Britain's TAM's. And even blockbuster Bonanza was clobbered by Rawhide in Korea. Another complication in foreign-syndication sales is that U.S. shows come in awkward lengths (a half-hour program has only 26 minutes...
...Robert Goulet, 31, is the biggest heartthrob since Perry Como (who has now slowed down to seven TV specials a year). Toothy and darkly handsome, Goulet arrived at full gallop as Sir Lancelot in the 1960 musical Camelot. His rich, he-man baritone and baby-blue, bedroom gaze have since made him one of the nation's most pawed-after TV and nightclub performers. Son of a Lawrence, Mass., bartender, he moved to his grandparents' farm in Edmonton, Canada, when he was 14, later won a scholarship in Toronto's Royal Conservatory of Music. Forsaking a career...
...PERRY COMO'S KRAFT MUSIC HALL (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Live TV entertainment, for a change, from Chicago's McCormick Place. Guest stars Richard Chamberlain, Diahann Carroll and the New Christy Minstrels will be performing at the annual convention of the National Restaurant Association...
...PERRY COMO'S MUSIC HALL (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Como entertains Singer Connie Stevens, Comedian Woody Allen and Trumpeter Al Hirt...