Word: gardners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week NBC-having been pleased by a trial show broadcast last autumn-began a new weekly series of That Was the Week That Was in the U.S., produced by Leland Hayward and written by Robert Emmett and Gerald Gardner. It promised a lot: a live program full of uninhibited topical satire, laced with guts and gaiety and the spirit of no tomorrow. But this side of Menninger's, no one could have dreamed that such a promise would be delivered. The actual result was bland and unfunny, full of toothpicks masquerading as rapiers...
With no femme fatale like Garbo, no woman with the animal splendors of the young Ava Gardner, Hollywood has completely lost its come-hither look, falling behind the competition from Europe, where Sophia Loren still unquestionably rules the pantheon. Around her, Bardot and Lollobrigida are fading. But Romy Schneider, Simone Signoret, Claudia Cardinale and Elke Sommer can each outsex all that the American industry has to offer. Hollywood is so barren of sex, in fact, that only last week Universal Pictures had to hold a beauty contest in New York's Americana Hotel in order to find three girls...
Bruce Caputo played his first game as scrumhalf, Eric Bradlee hooked with props Bill Pfeiffer and Curt Lemkan. In the three-quarter line were Mike Burbank, hampered by a leg injury, Rod Gardner, and spunky Gage McAfee who, when tackled, frequently got right back up again and kept running...
...Gardner made an excellent zebra kick (a kick up the middle when the opposition expects one into touch) but an offsides penalty returned the prolate spheroid to the Crimson five-yard line. The Philadelphians took it across on a rush...
Irrepressible Passions. Ava Gardner plays Iguana's voluptuary middle-aged innkeeper-who sets her desperate cap for Father Richard. She seems to be working at it, off and on camera. If there is a bit of dust on her slacks before a take, Richard helps her remove it. When he has a drink with her after hours, Ava blossoms with animation...