Word: hams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first episode, Actor's Blood, is a rather anemic whodunit about the murder of an unpleasant stage actress (Marsha Hunt) whose ham-actor father (Edward G. Robinson) stages a dinner party to which he invites all the suspects. Except for the solution, there are few surprises in this piece of old-fashioned mummery...
Western Mirage. Lucille explains that the TV show is important because "I'm a real ham and so is Desi. We like to have an audience. We like being up on our toes." But the show also allows her some time with her ten-month-old daughter, Lucie Desirée, and for the first time in eleven years of trouping, gives her a home life with husband Desi. Says she: "I look like everybody's idea of an actress, but I feel like a housewife. I think that's what my trouble was in movies...
...only immediate way to clear up the glut of meat on the Canadian market. Domestic meat prices have already sagged, giving consumers a temporary break but signaling trouble ahead for the country's farm economy. Hamburger has dropped in some places from 69? to 49? a lb., ham from 59? to 39?, roast of beef from...
...easy air of an old-fashioned family reunion surrounded the 58th floor of a Wall Street skyscraper last week. There, stockholders of Atlas Corp., at the first annual meeting ever held in Manhattan,† ate ham sandwiches from a nearby buffet...
...Actors-"A ham is, simply, any actor who has not been successful in repressing his natural instincts." ¶ Critics and criticism-"Impersonal criticism . . . is like an impersonal fist fight or an impersonal marriage, and as successful." "Show me a critic without prejudices, and I'll show you an arrested cretin...