Word: guestly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...very first time he turned up at the taping of a Rowan and Martin show to begin reporting for this week's cover story, Los Angeles Correspondent Jim Brodhead was struck by the friendliness of everyone on the set. Even the guest stars acted like old buddies. Actor Van Johnson threw an arm over Jim's shoulders and asked: "When do you think I'll be wrapped up tonight...
...bare-chested guest in a beret was ejected for wearing a bandolier of live ammunition. Hirsute Abbie Hoffman stopped twirling his yo-yo long enough to raise his hand and ask gravely "May I go to the bathroom?" Nancy Kurshan, clad as a witch, alternately burned incense and smooched with a brown-bearded, bell-bearing friend. She identified her organization as the Women's International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell, and intoned...
...cameo tapings are made with an eye for economy as well as variety. The average Laugh-In show costs $170,000 to produce. To save money, each cameo guest is given perhaps dozens of one-liners to recite. Those gags that are not used on one show are preserved on tape, along with an assortment of skits and acts, for use in future shows; they are numbered and filed in a "joke bank" under such headings as "Joke Wall" or "Cocktail Party...
...Cleaver, a jail-educated militant of abrasive eloquence, the court order for his imprisonment comes at an embarrassing moment. He is the presidential candidate for the antiwar Peace and Freedom Party. He is also scheduled to appear as a guest lecturer at the University of California's Berkeley campus, an appointment that stirred angry protests from the state's political establishment. For the Panthers, with two of their leaders on ice, it was a time of barely throttled fury...
...Edra Jeanne) Peaker. Informal to the point of plotlessness, the series romps through a tomato surprise of old tunes and new ones, comedy sketches and big production numbers. Old Pro George Burns helped tie together the opening-night proceedings with cigar-chomping asides and monologues. Another guest, Tony Randall, contributed a mix of roguish, debonair and fumbling antics. Other celebrities will appear in future weeks to goad the ingratiating team of Morse and Peaker along their song-and-dance journey through courtship and marriage. That's Life should live, if not happily ever after, at least...