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...well as his own NBC Christmas show. He also cranks out a movie a year, the last few of which have been excessively cornball-an embarrassment to his old fans. The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell, which he just wrapped up this month with Phyllis Diller, is likely to be more of the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stars: The Comedian as Hero | 12/22/1967 | See Source »

...spiral at the Guggenheim are displayed the eminents who died in the 1960s but whose work still seems relevant to the post-meta physical moment: the dadaist abstractionist Arp Giacometti's existential armature figures, the dynamic welded sculpture of David Smith, and the work of Burgoyne Diller, a precursor of minimalism. Next are the old masters whose common sensibility was formulated before World War II: Picasso, Nevelson, Lipchitz, Calder. Then come two generations of artists who, in Fry's opinion, are at once trying to escape from Renaissance definitions of sculpture and "in revolt against the ways...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sculpture: Responding to the Moment | 10/27/1967 | See Source »

Curtis' Kicks. Phyllis Diller owns three Excaliburs, in yellow, silver and grey-presumably rotated to match her hair. Bobby Darin, Eddie Albert, Actor James Darren, Batman Adam West and Writer Rod Serling have one apiece. Steve McQueen got one for his wife. Dick Van Dyke and his wife wear raccoon coats while tooling around in their yellow model; when people yell hello, Dick and Marjorie wave little pennants that say "HI." Tony Curtis sold his two Excaliburs. He's got four other cars anyway, and besides, Tony gets his kicks now by restoring authentic antique cars. "I suppose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood: Stars' Cars | 9/29/1967 | See Source »

When a star is not projecting his masculinity and just wants transportation, there is always the Rolls-Royce. Andy Williams, Bill Cosby, Milton Berle, Peter Falk, Lucille Ball, Liberace, Jerry Lewis, David Janssen and Jack Benny all own Rollses. Red Skelton has two Rollses. Phyllis Diller, when her Excaliburs are sheathed, gets by with one. Bob Hope, true to his longtime TV sponsor, sticks to a 1967 Chrysler Crown Imperial hardtop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood: Stars' Cars | 9/29/1967 | See Source »

Wednesday, September 20 CHRYSLER PRESENTS A BOB HOPE COMEDY SPECIAL (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).* Jimmy Durante, Phyllis Diller, Kaye Stevens and Jack Jones join Old Ski Nose for his first show of the season...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Sep. 22, 1967 | 9/22/1967 | See Source »

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