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...never heard of him , but Mike Douglas, host of the most popular show on daytime TV, is the A11-American Mommy's Boy. Each weekday, more than 6,000,000 housewives in 171 cities set up their ironing boards in front of the TV set to watch their idol; and this in turn has attracted such a crush of advertisers that the 90-minute program this year will bring in $10.5 million in sponsors' fees. While many TV shows have to round up studio audiences off the streets, the Mike Douglas Show claims a 14-month waiting list...
...Like his idol Adolf Schicklgruber, he was an unsuccessful painter. He went bust in the advertising business and broke as a traveling salesman, and was a dropout as publisher of a woman's magazine. Both his marriages failed...
...Anne's rise does not carry her to the chairmanship of a government agency, Miss Susann has made sure that Washington will not feel left out. The second heroine, a blonde sex-goddess called Jennifer North, wriggles from the clutches of a Spanish lesbian and divorces a retarded singing idol named Tony Polar to win the love of a senator named Win. Unfortunately, tragedy intervenes and Jennifer doses off a la Marilyn Monroe...
...Thirty-eight years of such energy, courage and authority have made John Wayne the greatest moneymaker in movie history: the gross comes to nearly $400 million. He is still the hero by Hemingway out of Hollywood, the he-man's he-man and the she-fan's idol. He talks and looks as tough as ever, though it was less than three years ago that he lost a lung while, as he put it, "kicking the Big C (cancer...
...they spend $12 billion each year. That enchanting fact has prompted publishers to go after a share of the teen green. The first adolescent stirrings were detected more than ten years ago when two events of major import to teendom coincided: the birth of Elvis Presley as an idol and the death of James Dean. Suddenly publications bearing either one's name were selling half a million copies. Soon magazines were riding, first, the Beatles, then the Rolling Stones, and now the Monkees. Currently, half a dozen monthlies are healthily selling half a million copies and more...