Word: dino
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...DEAN MARTIN SUMMER SHOW (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). The name of the star is the same, but the program is just a summer replacement, with Comics Dan Rowan and Dick Martin filling in for the absent Dino. Then, to hold down the show's exploding population, the producers have halved the Smothers Brothers, presenting only Tom as guest star...
...Silencers, Martin flicks on the radio and Sinatra Sr.'s voice careens out of it. Dino changes stations, and his own voice--now securely entrenched in the menopause--replaces Sinatra...
...when the youngsters are in bed and he need play nobody but himself. Como and Williams, he says, are for "the milk-and-cookies crowd. This is my show." His fans include Henry Miller and a satisfying 38% of the big-city Nielsen sample. As Actor Anthony Quinn analyzes Dino's appeal, "All of us seem to be plagued by responsibility, hemmed in by convention. Dean is the symbol of the guy who can go on, get drunk, have no responsibilities...
Martin's ever-present highball glass reinforces the general impression that he appears on-camera half gassed. But, as his bartender and his best friends know, Dean Martin is no more an out-of-control toper than Jack Benny is a 39-year-old tightwad. Dino on-camera affects a skinful for the same reason that Jack affects the skinflint. Martin's matchless comic timing, the testimony of his neighbors on Beverly Hills' Mountain Drive, his easy coping with a fast-moving life, all suggest a man who uses booze rather than letting...
...DEAN MARTIN SHOW (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Guests include Pearl Bailey, George Gobel and a new rock-'n'-roll group: Dino, Desi and Billy (Martin Jr., Arnaz Jr., and a friend named Hinshe...