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...Loesser). Comedians? Ed has ransacked the U.S. and Europe for funnymen; Victor Borge, Jackie Gleason, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis all made their TV debuts on the Sullivan program. Spectaculars? Ed is convinced that the basic idea came from such Toast of the Town biographies as those of Oscar Hammerstein II, Bea Lillie, Cole Porter and Walt Disney. Sullivan boasts that his show was the first to 1) have a permanent chorus line, 2) originate outside Manhattan, 3) introduce celebrities from the audience...
...world's finest collection of Cyprian antiquities was in New York City. He wanted to see that and Niagara, he said, and nothing more. Freud spent his first days in the New World tramping around museum collections rifled from the Old. He visited Coney Island, dined at Hammerstein's Roof Garden, and was "quietly amused" by his first movie. Freud called America "a gigantic mistake," and wrote pettishly that "tobacco ... is the only excuse I know for Columbus' misdeed...
...theatre manger hesitated. "Well," he said, "I'll tell you. The show's got no plot. It's no Rodgers and Hammerstein deal, with fancy dream sequences and integrated songs. But it's got girls. It's full of girls. I don't think I've ever seen so many girls in one chorus line before. It's no piece of art, but it's a businessman's night out. They don't mind paying the price because they're seeing talent. Real talent...
...develops her own negatives, sloshing around her bathroom in the dark) to word games. A favorite game is one devised by Alfred Hitchcock when he met Lizabeth Scott and got to wondering what would happen if other people dropped the first letter of their names: Rank Sinatra, Scar Hammerstein, Reer Garson. Orgie Raft, Ickey Rooney...
...goes he is accompanied by a glistening motorcade of Lincolns and Mercurys. In Houston, Sullivan agreed to preside at the opening of the new $9,000,000 Prudential Insurance building, but first arranged for a display of his sponsor's cars in the lobby. When Sam Goldwyn, Oscar Hammerstein II, Josh Logan or Walt Disney are guests on Toast of the Town, Sullivan sees to it that their wives get gift Lincolns. ("That gets a lot of caste-conscious people buying Lincolns...