Word: hals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Show-biz-wise, indeedy. Yorty's first show topped Perry Mason, It's About Time and Truth or Consequences. The critics were not altogether kind. Along with a nix from Variety, Sam's show prompted a double-edged encomium from Los Angeles Times TV Critic Hal Humphrey. "Would it be fair to say," asked Humphrey, "that Yorty makes as good a TV host as he does a mayor? Probably...
...pragmatic common man, a cross between barfly and gadfly, is one of Shakespeare's most captivating creatures. Falstaff's dark side is delineated believably and well by Welles, who frosts the screen with the chill of death when he stands shunned by his former companion, Prince Hal, become King Henry V. But the tragic moment of repudiation lacks substance and significance because the Prince and Falstaff have never been Shakespeare's "sworn brothers" in the early part of the film. In all their scenes, neither the two friends-nor the audience-have ever really laughed together...
MARK TWAIN TONIGHT (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). Another gift, this time Hal Holbrook re-creating Samuel Clemens with the same warmth and understanding as he did on Broadway...
...Married. Hal Holbrook, 41, the virtuoso one-man show in Off-Broadway's long-running (174 performances) Mark Twain Tonight!; and Carol Rossen, 28, aspiring actress, daughter of Hollywood's late Producer-Director Robert Rossen (The Hustler); he for the second time; in Manhattan...
...GLASS MENAGERIE (CBS, 9-11 p.m.). Tennessee Williams' gem, with Shirley Booth, Hal Holbrook, Pat Hingle and Barbara Loden...