Word: jacked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Memphis last week California Evangelist Dr. Jack Shuler threw the book at Hollywood ("the best friend the brothel has"). Bible-based movies, he shouted, are "counterfeit Christianity." and movie-colony Christians like Jane Russell have acquired "the dubious ability of juggling a Bible in one hand and a cocktail glass in the other...
...recorded music of the show, now on the market under the Columbia label. NBC, which has done well from its investment in Call Me Madam, Me and Juliet, Fanny and the current Alfred Lunt-Lynn Fontanne hit, The Great Sebastians, will put up the money for a new musical, Jack and the Beanstalk, written by Helen Deutsch and Jerry Livingston. NBC also promised one novelty: before the new musical reaches Broadway this fall, it will have a preview on television...
...then knocks her down against a table; she retaliates by belting him with a vase and breaking a chair over his head. While the salesman, cowering over his vacuum-cleaner attachments, quavers: "You shouldn't do that!" husband and wife batter each other around the room. Jovial M.C. Jack Bailey explains the hoax: the husband and wife are Hollywood stunt players; the smashed furniture consists of harmless "break away" props-and, while the audience howls, the vacuum salesman is congratulated on being a good sport...
...best measure of last week's tele vision is that Truth or Consequences' brutal hoax was about the most enter taining item shown. Jack Benny contented himself with a repeat film first shown a year ago; Producer Max Liebman tossed off a lackadaisical show starring Maurice Chevalier, Polly Bergen and Dancer Chita Rivera; Wide, Wide World contributed a go-minute thinly disguised commercial for General Motors with a visit to the automakers' new Technical Center in Detroit...
...tennis court and "a couple of smallish private mountains." At $10 a day per paying guest, it was so far from supporting the Hootons that after four days they were $160 in debt. To begin with, the help was a hindrance. For a wrangler, a dude ranch's jack-of-all-trades, they had Curly, "as stunning as a window dummy and every bit as bright." Curly managed to ride his horse into the reservoir, the draining of which cut off the water supply for hours. Barbara, who "didn't know a tsp. from a Tbsp...