Word: janet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other faiths question the need for the mission, but laymen are more open-minded. So far, there have been only two formal conversions, but Pounders happily reports that several others are "on the verge." What attracts converts is the activist zeal of the transplanted missionaries. Says High School Teacher Janet Saine, who joined the Church of Christ in Somerville, N.J.: "I was looking for a church and this one seemed to be the only one that was doing anything. There is a corporate life here; it's not just a Sunday church...
...HOPE PRESENTS THE CHRYSLER THEATER (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). When a songwriter (Peter Falk) hits it big and a society girl (Janet Leigh) just as suddenly runs into hard times, their mutual tax man recommends a merger for the best tax break. The momentous question: will their compatibility extend beyond IRS Form...
...story into a cliche-stocked, ho-humdrum thriller about a TV star (Stuart Whitman) who murders his rich-bitch wife (Eleanor Parker) in Reel Two, and for the next 80 minutes is dogged doomward by the police (Barry Sullivan), his wife's father (Lloyd Nolan), a former mistress (Janet Leigh), and his own conscience. The few amusing moments are provided by Actor Whitman, a young man with a large chest and a small talent who apparently intends to portray Modern Man in Search of a Soul, but actually looks like a beach boy stumbling around in search...
...pool plop Neddy Merrill and a bikinied blonde. They shake the man awake. "Know what day this is?" The drunk couldn't care less. Neddy and the blonde swim the length of the pool, get out and move on. Neddy Merrill is Burt Lancaster, the girl is Starlet Janet Landgard, and the scene is from a movie called The Swimmer, now being filmed in Connecticut's Fairfield County, a quaintly sybaritic suburb of New York City. The picture is an adaptation of John Cheevers short story about Neddy's attempt to drown his troubles with what...
...grandchildren are going to see me drunk in a swimming pool." Instead, they will see Granddad playing a bystander in a smaller if more decorous role, which has already been filmed. "All I did," says Cheever, "was say 'Hi,' shake Lancaster's hand, and kiss Janet Landgard, which I liked...