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...railroad officials tried to block the view of television cameras by holding up a large wooden board. A young woman reached through the railing and poked one of them in the nose. As the bewildered official retreated, another woman shouted: "Coward! Fighting with a woman...
...share of dummies too; the entire talk-show circuit on radio and TV is overloaded with people who are plugging their books, plays, movies, recordings and, if nothing else, their egos. But for the most part, Cavett's guests are intelligent, entertaining and at times controversial. Sir Noel Coward and Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne once treated Cavett's audience to an evocative and amusing evening. On a two-week series taped in London, Cavett produced an extraordinary constellation of British humorists, theater people and politicians. Fred Astaire, Jack Benny and Robert Mitchum have each received a full 90 minutes...
...producer. It was very disappointing, so I rang him up. "Is that all I get?a lousy $290?" I asked. The producer testily explained that this was the customary fee given to all the artists who appear on the Cavett show. "That's what we paid Sir Noel Coward, Alfred Lunt and Sir John Gielgud." Well frankly," I retorted. " I don't see why people like Noel, Al, Jack and I should?" He hung...
...leadership last year, he be gan tackling everyone and everything. He described the national steel monopoly, Broken Hill Proprietary, as rapacious. He called Cabinet Member Billy Snedden, who is considered McMahon's heir apparent, "an intellectual cripple." He blasted then-Prime Minister John Gorton as "a coward, a charlatan and a sham" for refusing to debate him on the issue of the 35-hour work week...
...particularly like his geodesic domes"). Fuller picked Ballerina Dame Margot Fonteyn, 51 ("I have been unable to divest myself of an awareness-not induced by others -that she is of the opposite sex"). And so on, to Rockster Mick Jagger, 27, and his surprise choice: Actor-Author Noel Coward, 71 (no reason given). Coward, too, had a bit of a surprise for his friends. "I should have liked to have chosen Mick Jagger," he said, "but now I've got to know and love Twiggy." Twiggy, 21, didn't pick anyone...