Word: duke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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TRUE GRIT would be nothing but another creaky western comedy except for a superb, self-mocking performance by John Wayne, who at 62 has never seemed more like The Duke...
TRUE GRIT is a creaky Western comedy that features a lot of painful cracker-barrel dialogue and a superb, self-mocking performance by John Wayne, who at 62 has never seemed more like The Duke...
...revolution in every man, woman or child who watches him on the screen for one performance than all the nudothespians of Hair, Che! and Oh! Calcutta! combined could produce on stage if they were to do their thing from now until the year 2010, when they reach the Grand Duke's age. Hell, they can't even compete with the fig leaf on TIME'S cover, which has more zip, unzippered, than either of the two characters posing behind it. By the way, which one is the good...
...programs- CBS and NBC for 31 hours starting at 11 a.m. on Sunday, and ABC for 30 hours beginning at noon-to report, contemplate and analyze the space epic. To fill the hours the networks pulled out all the stops and scheduled an impressive array of names. ABC commissioned Duke Ellington to write and perform a piece of music, Moon Maiden. The network also 1) lined up Steve Allen to sit down at a piano and discourse on the moon and romance in popular music, 2) called together a panel of scientists and science-fiction writers including Rod Serling, Isaac...
...frame looks trim at 195 lbs. (the result of a three-month Duke University rice diet), and his hair is gray and thinning. As he happily addresses Boston's late-morning housewives, he refuses to talk down to them, and insists on "informing as many people as possible, by whatever wiles we have, so that they can understand the nature of reality." His competition consists of Hollywood Squares, Concentration, The Art Linkletter Show, Beverly Hillbillies reruns and, inevitably, The Loretta Young Show. Reality being what it is, that line-up may defeat his efforts. But so far, despite occasional...