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Come On Strong is a serious play by Garson Kanin about the kind of show biz people that Nichols and May, rightly, think are funny. Carroll Baker is a girl on the way up; Van Johnson is a man of a certain amount of principle who follows along for a certain distance. The dialogue is studded with the kind of cracks that only canned TV audiences find funny. Californians refer to San Francisco as "Frisco." How, one muses, does a show like this ever reach Boston, let alone Broadway...
...Perelman's mad satire on culture-crazed Americans, is finally moving toward Broadway (Dec. 26) after trying out at Pennsylvania's Bucks County Playhouse in the summer of 1961. Opposite Carroll (Baby Doll) Baker, Van Johnson will play an actor who is also a LIFE photographer in Garson Kanin's Come On Strong...
...This Very Moment (ABC, 9-10 p.m.). Special, with Burt Lancaster, Lyndon Johnson, Harry Belafonte, Bobby Darin, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Jimmy Durante, Connie Francis, Greer Garson, Charlton Heston, Rock Hudson, Bob Hope, Lena Home, the Kingston Trio, Eleanor Roosevelt, Paul Newman, Jack Paar, Jane Powell, Edward G. Robinson, Dinah Shore, Danny Thomas and Joanne Woodward, benefiting the American Cancer Society...
...Gift of Time (by Garson Kanin) is the sad, clinically harrowing story of a man who is dying of cancer of the lower bowel, and how he faces it during the last three months of his life in Southern France. The Broadway play is based on Death of a Man, Lael Tucker Wertenbaker's account of her husband's suicide. Charles Christian Wertenbaker was an able journalist (for FORTUNE, LIFE, and TIME from 1931 to 1948) turned novelist. Gift is strangely unmoving and dramatically slack, partly because the audience knows in advance that the hero will die, partly...
...star over $15, more or less, to be paid a dresser, yet he is often liberal with authors' advances. He is widely celebrated as Broadway's biggest s.o.b. since the heyday of Jed Harris, but he has the respect of many professionals from Josh Logan to Garson Kanin, and his steady, money-making backers think he is a major prophet...