Word: gigged
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have the interests of the consumer at heart." Last week 55-year-old Betty resigned, frostily snapping as she went: "I'm too old for window dressing. I like to get things done." ··· When Comedian Don Rickles took up a two-week gig at Lake Tahoe, he decided to try his hand at tennis. Rickles, 45, tried to master the game, until felled by a torn ankle tendon. Into the hospital he went, suffering too much even to insult the surgeon, and into his place went Singer Robert Goulet to take over the show. Said Goulet...
...reporter about the "showmanship" involved in his weekly political talk show, replied, "I'm not nearly as histrionic as Franklin Delano Roosevelt was." He also distinguished his type of performance from Bob Hope's. That distinction was painfully manifest to viewers of Buckley's recent guest gig on Laugh-In, in which he matched limp quips with Rowan and Martin...
Meanwhile, the rides further down the board-walk kept spinning and dipping and whirling-the bumper cars and whirl-a-gig and Octopus. Tucked in quieter corners of this carnival, for the very smallest children, are tamer rides which turn in small circles, go very slowly, and remain perfectly level. They are designed to prevent the children from crying, to avoid upsetting them, rather than for excitement...
...Elvis renaissance seemed to be a reprieve. Television brought us his special. RCA brought out a few retrospective discs. Las Vegas lured him back to live performance. MGM promised, and has just delivered, its instant replay documentary of his last Las Vegas gig...
While the show was in rehearsal, the producers offered it to the Nixon Administration. Their premiere took place at a White House luncheon, and their next gig was a Memphis fund-raising banquet where they played opposite the va-va-va-voom rhetoric of Spiro Agnew. A follow-up Tennessee State Fair appearance was taped for presentation on the Ed Sullivan Show. All that will ultimately lead, Mann hopes, to an original-cast album, a cross-country tour and a weekly TV series. The whole prospect, he says, gives him goose pimples...