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...weekly Susskind symposium. Open End. He also produced miscellaneous specials (notably NBC's Moon and Sixpence with Laurence Olivier), the CBS Du Pont Show of the Month, and helped turn out a series of NBC dramatic programs that established Art Carney, once known only as Jackie Gleason's second banana, as the season's outstanding TV actor. The Susskind influence had its drawbacks: too many of his shows were $200,000 reproductions of old movies, books and plays, further threatening TV's almost lost hope of becoming a source of original drama...
...itself to any music with a steady ? beat -and allows for innumerable variations: after the basic Madison step is completed, the caller can ask for the Big M (see cut), for a snatch of the Charleston, for some cha cha cha, or for the step known as "the Jackie Gleason" (a broad parody of Gleason's away-we-go shuffle). When a pattern is finished, he may call: "Erase it," i.e., repeat the pattern in reverse. The variations often have a sports flavor, as in "the Wilt Chamberlain Hook," in which the dancer suddenly goes stiff-legged and completes...
Simple Subtraction. In Sunland, Calif., students and teachers at Mount Gleason Junior High School took calmly several telephone threats that a bomb was hidden in the auditorium, since the school has no auditorium...
...number of varied performances he proved his versatility as an actor and became one of the TV hits of the season: a) Mickey Rooney. b) Jackie Gleason. c) Art Carney. d) Lawrence Welk. 73. In the wake of the TV investigations, all three major networks promised that they will: a) Devote at least one hour every week to public-service shows. b) Drop all quiz shows...
...Carney Show (NBC, 8-9:30 p.m.). One more exercise of Carney's consummate dramatic versatility. Jackie Gleason's former second banana is top man in three one-act plays: Sean O'Casey's A Pound on Demand, Noel Coward's Red Peppers, Eugene O'Neill's Where the Cross Is Made. Color...