Word: famed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...return put Johnson in a reminiscent mood. Said he: "Forty years ago almost to this very night, I left my high school diploma at home and headed west to seek the fame and fortune I knew America offered. I came back because I realized that the place to really begin was the place I had been all the time. I cannot tell you what the future will be, any more than I could have predicted, when I sat in your place, that I would be standing here tonight. But I know it can be a place in which...
...Observe the strictest respect for the dignity, privacy, fame and reputation of persons...
ONCE UPON A MATTRESS (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). Carol Burnett re-creates the role of Princess Winifred, which first brought her to fame...
...story unfolds in flashbacks. First, Shirley's mother (Margaret Dumont, that grand battle-axe of Marx Brothers fame) warns her about the high cost of scruples. But having refused to wed Dean Martin because he is a tycoon, Shirley marries Dick Van Dyke, a philosophical hardware merchant who has exactly what she wants - nothing. "Our life together was just like an old silent movie," says Shirley. Which cues in some grainy black-and-white footage -a slapstick idyl with speeded-up action. The idyl jerks to a stop when Van Dyke throws away his Thoreau and proceeds to make...
...into an abstract blob. Husband No. 3 is Robert Mitchum. Already wealthy, he liquidates his assets and goes native down on the farm, only to meet disaster trying to milk a bull. Next comes Gene Kelly ("Our life was like a gay 1930s musical") who hoofs his way to fame, fortune and a grim finale...