Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will include news, trends and personalities of movies, theater, television, nightclubs, pop music. It will report on the more offbeat corners such as carnivals and beauty contests. And it will cover the vast supporting cast of pitchmen-the Madison Avenue mills that turn out commercials, as well as the Hollywood moguls who create new stars. While TIME'S regular THEATER and CINEMA sections will continue to review new plays and movies, SHOW BUSINESS will report the news of big and little theaters, of slick Broadway productions and progressive university workshops, will range from the facts of financial life...
...happened next is told by NBC's Board Chairman Robert Sarnoff: "We faced a critical decision. The America After Dark version of our Tonight show was a shambles. Sponsors were shunning the program. Some stations were defecting from the NBC late-night line-up in favor of old Hollywood movies. We were under heavy pressure to give up late-night live programing. After much soul searching we staked everything on an amiable young man named Jack Paar - and never has a network program gamble paid off more handsomely...
Balloon Breaker. To last through this kind of performance five nights a week takes a talent spawned by radio, toughened by Hollywood and burnished by the demands of an unforgiving clutch of television cameras. No comedian in the U.S. can boast a more abundant supply of the necessary skills than Jack Paar. He has been practicing them almost all his life...
Deus ex Machina. His wartime success got Jack a job in Hollywood shortly after he came home. RKO and later 20th Century-Fox put him under contract but rarely got around to putting him in front of a camera (he did once play opposite an unheard-of starlet named Marilyn Monroe). In 1947 he was hired as the summer replacement on NBC-Radio's Jack Benny Show. His fresh, natural style was a success, and in the fall American Tobacco put the Jack Paar Show on the air on ABC. It lasted until Christmas Eve. In his radio days...
Born. To Harry Lillis ("Bing") Crosby, 54, patriarchal tycrooner, horseman, low-handicap golfer, and Cinemactress Kathy (Operation Mad Ball) Grant (formerly Olive Kathryn Grandstaff of West Columbia, Texas), 24: a son, their first child (he has four other sons by his first wife, the late Musicomedienne Dixie Lee); in Hollywood. Name: Harry Lillis III. Nickname: Tex. Weight...