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...Hollywood set of Critics' Choice, Leading Man Bob Hope headed into a banquet room and wound up with a surprise party. For his 59th birthday, co-workers gave him a $40 stuffed panda, a cake ablaze with candles, and a good-humored ribbing written by his own gagmen and delivered by Co-Star Lucille Ball. "I don't know just how old Bob is," said the sprightly redhead, "but he's closer to medicare than most Republicans." Added Lucy, recalling Hope's salad days: "He was handsome then-big chest, hard stomach. Of course, that...
Except for his fine character acting, Hitchcock is too busy making Hollywood movies to bother much about his TV chores. His astringent lines are written for him by Playwright James (At War with the Army) Allardice, who last year was one of George Gobel's team of gagmen. The TV shows are filmed by a staff of four directors and, of the 39 made this season, Hitchcock will have had a personal hand in only six. But, largely for the prestige of his name, he is rumored to have made "one of the most fabulous deals in TV." After...
...because he had submitted a ghostwritten article as evidence. He was also pointing up an old Washington custom: ghostwriters had become as much a part of the furniture of modern government as the Mimeograph machine. Many a legislator was as helpless without his ghost as Jack Benny without his gagmen. They appeared on congressional payrolls as "secretaries," in executive departments as "administrative assistants" and "information specialists." And on the Supreme Court itself, some Justices' legal styles changed in curious relation to their law clerks...
...good gagmen are rare and once an artist gets his hands on one he keeps him captive if he can. Cartoonist Jeff Keate, however, shares Gagman Arnot Shepperd Jr. of St. Louis with several friends. Gagman Richard McCallister of Newtown, Conn. has been a dependable source of gags for Helen Hokinson, Robert Day, Barbara Sherman and George Price. The gagman's usual cut: 25% of the artist...
Road to Utopia (Paramount) is the fourth and farthest north in the Bob Hope-Bing Crosby-Dorothy Lamour road shows.* It also had the Paramount gagmen scraping the barrel bottom...