Word: idea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Monaco was a dice with disaster, the Bahamas 500 ocean powerboat race last week turned into what one contestant aptly termed "a demolition derby." The general idea of ocean powerboat racing is to take a boat out into the deep, open her up to 50-60 m.p.h., and pray. The Bahamas 500 was designed as the granddaddy of them all-a 512-mi. circle around the islands from Grand Bahama, and all for $50,000 in prize money. It should have been $1,000,000, considering the carnage...
...late-night talk show with some sympathetic comedian like Joey Bishop or Johnny Carson is the best. If possible, get on two rival shows, one the day after the other. Spell out why your client was railroaded while the host nods in friendly agreement. This will give viewers the idea that what you are saying must be right...
...programmed geography course how she would use a vacant lot in downtown Chicago, Irvine Drama Student Tana Shattuck proposed a new musical theater for the space. "The computer answered, 'You need more sleep,' " she recalls. "But I wish I could have talked with it about my idea. It was programmed for a certain thing...
...match Carson's audience empathy. He never comes on too worldly or too show biz, shuns its phony language and, whenever possible, the greeting kisses from celebrities who brush cheeks and smack air. In sum, he plays the audience's ambassador to his own show. The idea is not to be too thick with the celebrities or too awed by them. His job is to set them up, to put them on gently, and to raise the questions that his viewers might ask, though
...brother, nor with Announcer McMahon, who is one of Johnny's closest friends, despite gossip to the contrary. On the other hand, Carson did fire Tonight Producer Art Stark, who was also a close friend and associate for eleven years. Explains McMahon: "Art was more fixed in his idea of the show. Johnny has a freer idea-more explosive." Staffers say that Carson insisted on format changes-chiefly bits that would allow him to get out of his chair for more skits and business with guests-and that Stark was all for adhering to the successful formula...