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...Perry Como Show (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). Kukla, Ollie and their wonderfully wacky "Kuklapolitan" puppets help Perry retell the tale of the first Christmas. Color...
...strongly entrenched at the top of the charts. The moon-faced young man who used to pull no more than $750 a week on the road now draws as much as $1,000 for a single performance. He will really crash the big time on the Perry Como TV show this week (NBC, Nov. 29, 8 p.m. E.S.T.). From the sales of Make Believe alone, he expects to clear...
...that NBC was burdened with new ideas: there was the sound of western gunfire, the brassy clangor of variety shows, a hint of "adult" comedy. All the old standbys were there-Dinah Shore, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Perry Como. The newest TV face turned out to be one of the oldest in show business: Ed Wynn, 71. In the preview, at least, he was involved in an embarrassingly corny act, plugging his own forthcoming dramatic series alongside a stripper, each of whose removable scanties carried an announcement for some NBC attraction...
There was one space left on the Lake Como ferry at Gravedona, Italy, and a little blue Fiat slipped into it. But that left the vacationing Sheik of Kuwait in an awkward fix: his three-car caravan (including one blue Cadillac, one black Cadillac) was only two-thirds afloat. No smalltime bey-decker, His Highness Sir Abdullah as Salim as Sabah quickly offered the ferryboat captain $16 to unload the latecomer and make room for the royal limousine. The Milanese tourist in the Fiat bid $32 to preserve the status quo. The Sheik bid $160. The Italian raised...
Swinging easily from suave, Como-style sophistication to the animal beat of rock 'n' roll, Domenico still managed to save some memory of the guitars and ritual-dance rhythms of his gypsy ancestors. The freshness of his singing, the unlettered freedom of his song itself are probably due in part to the fact that he has yet to find time to learn to read or write music. His father taught him simple tunes when he was still a barefoot boy barely as big as his guitar. He composed his first song at 14, has been playing ever since...