Word: fanning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...match against Fry and Rattigan, perhaps has the edge in straight drama as well. On the other hand, American actors cannot meet the English standard, and the competition gets more acute daily; outside the Old Vic, the poster announces The Merry Wives of Windsor and scribbled below by a fan "starring Princess Margaret...
...salvaged some shreds of comedy from an interview with Actor Fred MacMurray. Gobel this year may have a rival in CBS's Johnny Carson, another minor-keyed comic who can extract a remarkable amount of amusement from such items as his meeting last week with his three-girl fan club. Like Gobel, Carson has a cute girl singer, Jill Corey, and they spend too much time nuzzling each other. It seems that the shy-type comic cannot survive on TV without a soubrette to lean against...
...Seven Year Itch. There is a blonde, Marilyn-Monroeish siren, a bland Hollywood agent with satanic powers, an illiterate Hollywood producer, an idling playwright who wrote a sock first play and can't get on with a second. And there is a shy, not very bright young fan-magazine writer who, by selling his soul in 10% slices to the agent, becomes a modern-day Faust...
...much less in actual torque delivered to the rear wheels of the car. After 3,000 miles, carbon deposits drain off 10 h.p.; a hot summer day robs the engine of another 20 h.p. because hot air decreases fuel mixture efficiency; another 20 h.p. goes to operate the fan belt, water pump, generator, etc.; still another 20 h.p. is lost in bearing, transmission and tire friction. With gadgets, the driver of a 200 h.p. car may wind up with little more than 100 h.p. to move...
...brashness of a hardened performer." This was just the kind of man CBS wanted as M.C. of a projected Sunday-night variety show. When Toast of the Town went on TV, Ed was so petrified with stage fright that he aroused a strongly maternal feeling in his audience. One fan wrote: "It takes a real man to get up there week after week-with that silver plate in his head." So many others warmly congratulated him for his triumph over facial paralysis, a twisted spine and other dire but imaginary ills that Sullivan has about given up protesting that...