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...Cork, Ireland...
...ONLY CHILD, by Frank O'Connor. An account of the author's boyhood in a wet, ruined, pious, oppressed Cork slum. The heroine is O'Connor's mother; her son writes of her with eloquence and wonder...
Packaged by David Susskind's Talent Associates-Paramount, the show is run by Producer Robert Costello, who enjoys remarkable freedom to do what he pleases. The Armstrong Cork Co. keeps its distance, and the results show it. "We have no strictly taboo subjects," says Costello, "but I suppose if we wanted to do a show where a child eats a piece of cork flooring and dies, well...
...geography-book whale; he just sort of stands there to show how big Big John really is.) But in this western the bald theme matters less than the hairy variations. Item: the big bold badman (Lee Marvin), when he wants a shot of redeye, does not tear the cork out with his stubby green teeth-a routine every Hollywood heavy learns in his first villain lesson. Nosirree, he whacks the bottom of the bottle with the flat of his hand and blasts the cork...
Last week Susskind's hostmanship finally blew the cork, deluged the show in fizz and fuzz. The occasion was the seasonal opener of Open End, and the evening's topic was a weighty one: Frank Sinatra's Clan. As panelists, Susskind invited some celebrated tosspots, including Jackie Gleason, Joe E. Lewis, Toots Shor and Actress Lenore Lemmon. When the program opened, it was apparent that most everyone was well fortified, and as it progressed, everybody helped himself to a liquid refreshment camouflaged in a teapot. Susskind, with some help from sharp-tongued Critic Marya Mannes, tried manfully...