Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...HOLLYWOOD PALACE (ABC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). Bing Crosby is host, and his visitors include Tammy Grimes, Nanette Fabray, Jackie Mason and David Frost. Repeat...
...clearly, does Candidate Reagan's personal appeal. Hollywood-handsome and remarkably youthful in appearance (he is 55), Reagan has also maintained a nice-guy, down-to-earth presence while perfecting a smooth platform style throughout a durable career as radio announcer, movie actor, lecturer and television performer (most recently as M.C. of Death Valley Days). In switching from show business to politics, Reagan undoubtedly also benefits from the precedent set by Fellow Republican, Fellow Actor George Murphy, who has settled soberly into the U.S. Senate seat from California that...
...trips in the city's hospitals at one time. In New York City, Dr. William Frosch of Bellevue Hospital and New York University Medical Center guesses that the number of steady users in the city has doubled from 5,000 to 10,000 during the past year. A Hollywood mogul, a Broadway producer and a noted drama critic all agree that 60% of stage and screen performers are using it. Los Angeles has a dance joint called The Trip, and until recently featured one called Lysergic a Go-Go. "Acid heads" are apt to "turn on" in walk...
...going on 95" when she got her first job-as a nightclub singer and impressionist in Canada. "I did Bea Lillie, Gracie Fields and a Wagnerian opera singer," she recalls. "I wasn't awfully good." True, but her nightclub spot earned enough money to pay her passage to Hollywood, and it was there, at 17, that she got her first movie role, and there that casting directors decided that Angela Lansbury was the girl to play everybody's old lady...
With a record like that, Angela Lansbury surely must have been heading for a truly climactic Hollywood role-maybe as Bette Davis' grandmother in Son of Elizabeth and Essex. Certainly no sane Broadway producer could have thought of her as a high-stepping, pratfalling, ageless kook of an Auntie Mame who believes that "life is a banquet and most poor sons of bitches are starving to death." But that is just what she's doing. She is playing the title role in Mame, the musical-comedy version of Patrick Dennis' novel-play-movie. Mame is Broadway...