Word: custards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...enough frozen custard and the carnival spirit, Revere Beach will be gaudily open from the first...
Hollywood has a name for such actresses. It calls them "sensitive." For one reason or another, a "sensitive actress" will refuse to do a striptease, or be hit by a custard pie, or perform other trifling tasks often deemed necessary to her art. Helen Hayes had been an outstanding sensitive in her brief flings at Hollywood. Barbara was plainly another. She met all the requirements of the star's life with open rebellion. Even the barbecue grill at her home annoyed her because it was so typically Hollywood. Besides, she says, "I hated being under contract, hated always being...
...this is very entertaining. It is all nonsense, of course, but of a restrained sort. Pinero, though he does have most of the cast hiding under tables at one point, at least does not stoop to custard pies. The Victorians needed to relax at a farce now and then, but they would never have cared for Abbott and Costello...
...little doubt that Fred Allen was in television to stay. The challenge to current TV King Milton Berle, who began a new winter series last week, seemed clear enough. Old Campaigner Allen may yet demonstrate that TV needs a little lemon juice to cut the taste of so much custard...
...hundreds of volunteer contestants who have been hit in the face with custard pies or suffered similar indignities on Truth or Consequences, only one made any active protest. After being pushed into a tankful of water, he managed to pull Edwards, dinner jacket and all, in after him. "He was just being playful," explains Edwards. And, what is really important: "It got a great laugh from the studio audience...