Word: jacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jack ("I'm live!") Paar had hardly launched himself as NBC's bright weeknightly answer to late movies when he began playing Pygmalion to a professionally addled Galatea from Ohio, orange-topped Dolores ("Dody") Martha Goodman, "aged 29" (real age: 43). By last week, seven months later, the comedienne that Jack built had "disenchanted" her creator, and Paar felt less a Pygmalion than a Frankenstein. "Sweet little Midwestern Dody," he snorted. "Brother! And we did it-we made...
Vulnerable Spot. Then something went agley. Dody began basking in her new limelight-and looking as if she expected her laughs. She also started irritating Paar, who has a temperament as tender as a tenor's. She complained on the air that Jack wouldn't let her do the song-and-dance turns she wanted to. Once she pointed to the red light signaling silence for a commercial on Paar's desk and chirped: "Oh, I'm not supposed to talk when that's on, am I?" (Retorted Jack: "Dody, you know I told...
...intermediaries. In December Dody was cut down from five to three performances a week. Her shrewd manager renegotiated her five-year NBC contract, guaranteeing her $26,000 for the next 26 weeks, whether she appears with Paar or not, and freeing her for other work. In the deal the Jack Paar Show gladly arranged to drop her as a "regular" last week...
Retorted Dody: "I acted the same in the beginning, but slowly the things he hired me for he is criticizing me for now. Now everybody can bounce off me but I'm not supposed to bounce off them. Jack will take an innocent remark the wrong way. Now, when I just look at him it makes...
...displayed tightly controlled correctness when Dody announced that she was leaving "on vacation." As he signed off for the week, he smiled: "Have a good vacation, Dody. Good night, Dody." Said Dody next day: "I think he wanted to appear that we were very friendly." But off the air Jack said that he felt miserable about the whole thing. Added he: "My mistake was to let her rise. The only thing she cared about was fan mail and publicity-not about the show. Friday may well have been her last time on the show. I'm not a fraud...