Word: famed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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THOROUGHBRED (NBC, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). Racing Hall of Fame's Jockey Eddie Arcaro traces the story of a young thoroughbred named Stamp Act from birth to his first big race as a two-year-old in last summer's Saratoga $25,000 Special, in which he placed fifth...
SUNSHINE SUPERMAN (Epic). The fellow the kids know as Donovan, who made his fame as a sort of Scottish Dylan ("You fill your glasses with the wine of murdered Negroes"), has forsaken protest for the pipes of a psychedelic Pied Piper, leading his myriad followers to a never-ever land of "velvet thrones" and "cascading crystals" via "trans-love airways." "I will bring you gold app-uls and grapes made of rubies" he chants, weaving a seamless tapestry of fairy tales with titles like Legend of a Girl Child Linda and The Fat Angel...
West Germany's Horst Janssen is an unkempt, 200-lb. colossus who, when not actually at his drawing board, sprawls on his unmade bed, clad in boots and blue jeans, redolent of cheap schnapps, cursing the world and especially its art critics. Yet for all his fulminations, both fame and money seem to be irresistibly coming Janssen...
Died. Charles Burchfield, 73, homespun, Ohio-born artist, who shunned publicity, never traveled abroad, cared little for critics, convention or popular trends in art, nonetheless won fame and financial success in the 1920s for his watercolors of grey and sordid industrial scenes, after which he changed his style completely, indulged his sense of fantasy by musing about heaven ("Like Corot, I hope there will be painting there") and doing fairy-tale landscapes haunted by macabre creatures; of heart disease; in Gardenville...
...Game Is Over. Some people (including Roger Vadim) consider Roger Vadim an artist. Some don't. What is certain is that he won fame and fortune by displaying his wives on the screen without any clothes on. He got his start by exhibiting Brigitte Bardot in And God Created Woman, and he now presents his third wife, Jane Fonda, in the latest elucubration of the Vadim for mula: lacking something new to say, give them something nue to look...