Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first album. His career was off to such a boffo start that the new recording star, Illinois' Senator Everett McKinley Dirksen, 70, decided that a little TV exposure wouldn't hurt. He signed on to intone portions of his patriotic recital, Gallant Men, on ABC's Hollywood Palace, a taped show scheduled for Jan. 14. Unlike most vocalists, Ev is giving all the profits ($75,000 so far) to charity...
...both, and an Oscar winner to boot, although there was no doubt that the award was at least partly a consolation prize from Hollywood sentimentalists who thought Julie should have got the film role in Fair Lady...
Midnight Birds. With all her success, Julie is now facing up to the inevitable cliché that infects married couples who get deeply involved in their separate professions: Whither goest who? The answer is that Walton goeth to London, Julie to Hollywood. The result is that they are separated by more than an ocean and a continent. At one point, they corresponded on tape. "Every day, out went the tapes," says Tony. "Julie saying how frightened she was of acting, how unreal the whole thing was. But we got too good at the tapes and a bit too tricky. Every...
...complications, Julie has fallen in love with California, has bought an eight-room house in Coldwater Canyon near Hollywood. "I used to loathe Hollywood," she says. "It seemed miles from anywhere. The papers seemed just local gossip, and I felt unconnected with the rest of the world. But now I think that Hollywood is as real as New York or as real as London or as real as Venice. There's no place I'd rather be. When I'm away for very long, I can't wait to get back...
Died. Richard Whorf, 60, man of all theater trades and master of some, Broadway actor in the Lunt-Fontanne ensemble in the 1930s, Hollywood character actor (Yankee Doodle Dandy) and director in the 1940s, and for the past few years TV director of Gunsmoke and The Beverly Hillbillies; of a heart attack; in Santa Monica, Calif...