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...knuckle-crackingly nervous mannerisms won him as much affection as ridicule. Comedians competed to crack a smile on his stony face; mimics used him as a lab specimen. His malapropisms became legend. "Let's hear it for the Lord's Prayer," he once intoned after Sergio Franchi sang that hymn. A shrewd judge of talent, Sullivan introduced 25,000 performers to American TV, many, such as Bob Hope, Elvis Presley, the Beatles and Liza Minnelli, for the first time. His formula was simple: "Open big, have a good comedy act, put in something for children and keep...
...rival, the Anglo-French Concorde. The final day of the show last week was mostly devoted to flying exhibitions. The Concorde was the first of the SSTs to perform under the canopy of gray clouds that loomed over Le Bourget Airport. As 350,000 spectators watched, French Pilot Jean Franchi put his big bird through a ten-minute series of brilliantly controlled maneuvers and turns. He ended the performance with a fast pass over the field and a spectacular "zoom climb...
...double-cross. The object is to see who can garner the most votes from the other parties, since no party in Italy's fractional politics enjoys anything remotely resembling a majority. The candidate must also avoid defections from within his own party. Such defectors are known as tiratori franchi, or snipers. The game is so complex that Saragat was elected in 1964 only after 21 ballots, taken over the course of 13 days...
...steal a scene from either Bombolini would amount to grand larceny, and the supporting players are all petty. Virna Lisi, as an icy aristocrat, is confined to reaction shots opposite her two admirers: Hardy Kruger, a profile of German authority, and Sergio Franchi, a profile, period. The show's force does not reassert itself until the appearance of the extras, a cluster of paesani recruited from an Italian village 36 miles south of Rome. They provide a chorus con brio, and give the film verisimilitude no casting office could provide. "The Italian race," wrote Mussolini, "is a race...
WAYNE AND SHUSTER TAKE AN AFFECTIONATE LOOK AT GEORGE BURNS (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Not to mention Gracie Allen, Jack Benny, Bea Benadaret, Harry von Zell, Eddie Cantor, George Jessel, Bobby Darin, Carol Channing and Sergio Franchi...