Word: dudes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...comedy of the opening week was The Hero (NBC), out of the same shop and mold as last season's hit, Get Smart. Richard Mulligan is cast as an actor who is cast as an actor in a TV western series. In real life he is a suburban dude and a sort of all-round schlemiel. Between (and sometimes during) takes, he is horse-shy, allergic to sagebrush, and as rugged as Mr. Peepers. But the sight gags are inventive, and the dialogue is literate. The only other situation comedy worth a twirl is That Girl (ABC), a sort...
...Based on the first half of The Private Ear-The Public Eye, a 1963 Broadway hit by Britain's Peter Shaffer, The Pad is laid out as a parable of friendship. Ted (James Farentino), who considers himself God's gift to the working girl, is a crude dude with a smile like a moonlit mackerel and a little black book that would choke a billy-goat. Bob (Brian Bedford), on the other hand, is one of the pure to whom all things are pure, a dear young fuddy-duddy who works as an errand boy in a freight...
...Drifting Dude. At one time or another, Harte partially earned many of the opprobrious epithets that Mark Twain hurled his way. He was quite capable of snubbing friends on the street -and equally capable of showing up just at dinnertime to borrow two quarts of whisky and a room to finish them in while knocking out a short story. "If he ever repaid a loan," grumbled Twain, who was himself touched for several thousand dollars, "the incident failed to pass into history...
...young dude in a silken mustache and patent-leather shoes adrift through the California gold mine country, Harte discovered the literary lode he was to tap for the rest of his life. The Luck of Roaring Camp and The Outcasts of Poker Flat, two short stories published in the Overland Monthly magazine, gave readers so honest and vigorous a draft of frontier life that Harte became an overnight celebrity. It is fair to say, as O'Connor does, that the literature of the West began with Bret Harte...
...with the Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey Circus in Greensboro, N.C., Roy got saddled with a spirited nag that objected to Western spurs. Or perhaps it was the way Roy sat the English saddle. The stallion reared and a crowd of 6,000 gasped as the King, like any dude, tumbled off, landing on his rump in the sawdust...