Word: fame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Adele Astaire and a five-year-old girl named Tallulah Bankhead 2nd (the star's great-niece)-showed up to watch a new musical, Via Galactica. They also searched a gold-lettered list to see who was among the 123 names on Broadway's first hall of fame. First on the list: Playwright-Director George Abbott, 85, who observed: "That's not talent, just alphabet. The only people who can beat me are named Aaron...
Perhaps the most surprising aspect of the letter is its self-deprecatory tone and its appraisal of the transitory nature of fame and the impermanence of doctrinal certainty. "I have self-confidence," Mao writes at one point, "but at times I lack it. Often I feel that just as when there is no tiger in the mountains the monkey reigns as king, in this way too I have become the big king. But this is not making compromises, because my dominant nature is that of the tiger, while my subordinate one is the monkey...
...Fame introduces Strauss to the celebrated ("I admire your versatility, Offenbach") and the notorious, in the person of Jetty Treffz (Mary Costa), described by Johann's sister-in-law as "the woman who has been scandalizing Vienna." They marry, and Mother's resistance is quieted when she learns that Jetty is not a common gulden-digger after all. There is some nastiness about Jetty's illegitimate son and Johann's trifling with coarse café singers. All comes right at the end, however, to the strains of The Blue Danube and the assurance of a subtitle...
...lines: Schlitz and Seattle's Rainier companies have moved into the wine business during the past few years. Food-processing companies are heeding the ancient Roman proverb, "A meal without wine is like a day without sunshine": Pillsbury Co., Nestlé and the R.T. French & Co. of mustard fame have recently become vineyard owners. So have Lazard Frères, the Wall Street investment-banking firm; John Hancock, the insurer; and Southdown Inc., the Houston-based conglomerate. Takeover-ripe wineries have become rare, and the bids for them are enormous. The Gallo brothers have spurned an offer from Seagrams...
SPECIAL: Hall of Fame. In 1939, Orson Welles turned down an offer from George S. Kaufman to star in his new play "The Man Who Came to Dinner." Welles preferred to work on a movie which came to be called "Citizen Kane". Now Welles comes to television as Sheridan Whiteside, the role he refused 33 years ago. The play is updated and spiced with an all-star cast. CH.4. 8:30 p.m. Color...