Word: ginger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...form or another (Ginger Rogers on Broadway, Betty Grable in Las Vegas, Carol Channing in Los Angeles), the Dollies are multiplying infectiously. The overseas form is Mary Martin, and Producer David Merrick thought that his globe-trotting troupe of Hello, Dolly! was in just the right shape to send to Russia as a gesture of cultural amity. "Nyet!" gestured back the Kremlin, obscurely protesting U.S. involvement in Viet Nam. Then the man who's most involved in Viet Nam took over. Lyndon Johnson phoned Merrick at 5 a.m. one foggy dawn in Tokyo, where that same evening Mary brought...
...this purported biography produced by Bill Sargent's Electronovision Inc. The real Harlow was jade of purest quality; Sargent's Carol Lynley plays her as a pale finishing-school dropout turned unfinished actress, capturing the walk but not the talk. And Lynley is appropriately supported. Ginger Rogers and Barry Sullivan are grotesquely grasping as her stage mother and stepfather; Efrem Zimbalist Jr., playing a counterfeit composite of Harlow's last costar, Clark Gable, and her last love, William Powell, seems more like Ronald Colman than either...
...doll of 19 when she bowed on Broadway in 1930, and 14 years have passed since her lyric legs last graced a Manhattan stage. Not that Ginger Rogers has been idle. Looking maturely desirable at 53, she has headed the road-show company of The Unsinkable Molly Brown and found time for TV and movie roles as well. This summer, when Carol Channing, 44, leaves the Broadway cast of Hello, Dolly!, the role will be spiced with Ginger...
...even bringing change to its basic product, Alka-Seltzer-an efferescent antacid compound of aspirin, bicarb of soda, citric acid and mono-calcium phosphate. It has added to its traditional blue-labeled bottle handy tinfoil packs of Alka-Seltzer that can fit into pocket or purse, is test-marketing ginger-and citrus-flavored versions of the tablet. To convince people that they do not have to drink a gallon of water with Alka-Seltzer, the company is also suggesting in its ads that they adopt the habit of downing Alka-Seltzer "on the rocks," with only a touch of water...
...HOPE THEATER (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Ginger Rogers stars as the wicked and dangerous mother-in-law of a new bride (Carol Lawrence). Color...