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Calling the results of the referendum "inconclusive," Katherine Gleason '80, moderator of the Freshman Council, said last night the council may vote next Tuesday to delay a decision to start the selection process until after a proposed January conference of House committee and Freshmen Council representatives discusses the CRR issue...
...Daniel Gleason Austin, Texas...
SPECIALS, those traditional one-shot blockbusters, will feature Jackie Gleason, Bob Hope, Charlie Brown, Neil Diamond, Johnny Cash, Bing Crosby and many others. This kind of show is virtually the property of NBC this year. The network has scheduled 190 hours of nonseries specials programming, plus 45 hours of a weekly spectacular it calls The Big Event. TBE is an amalgam of movies, novels-into-books and such nonhappenings as a 4½-hour special-during its worst rated year ever-in honor of NBC's own 50th anniversary. Highlights: the first network TV showing of Gone With...
...Apart from that, more than 450 pooch owners turned up in Atlanta last week to audition their dogs for a role in Burt Reynolds' next movie, Smokey and the Bandit. The judge was Burt himself, who will play the bandit opposite Sally Field as a hitchhiker and Jackie Gleason as a Texas sheriff who's trying to track him down. Burt's choice as the canine co-star was a two-year-old basset hound named Happy: "I picked the one that looked best in the bathing-suit contest. He was also the most congenial...
...play guitar gigs in local restaurants, and later moved on to the cornet, the trumpet and fame with Glenn Miller and other titans of the prewar Big Band era. More recently, Hackett had been paying his bills by performing anonymously in treacly mood-music albums released under Jackie Gleason's name, but his reputation seems secure -almost as hot, cool and craftsmanlike on the horn in pieces like String of Pearls or Body and Soul as Louis Armstrong...