Word: joey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIE (CBS, 9-11:15 p.m.). There's no doubt that Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Peter Lawford, Sammy Davis, Joey Bishop and fans had great fun back in 1960 making Ocean's Eleven, in which the clan goes clam digging in Vegas. But now that ebb's set in, it's pretty mucky...
Cincinnati shipped 30-year old Frank Robinson to the American League to try his hand with Baltimore. In return, the Reds got Milt Pappas, Jack Baldschun, and Dick Simpson. Pappas will join Jim Maloney, Sam Ellis, and Joey Jay in the starting pitchers' rotation. Relief help will come largely from erratic Jim O'Toole and veteran Joe Nux-hall...
SAMMY AND HIS FRIENDS (ABC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Sammy Davis' one-shot special, with Friends Edie Adams, Joey Heatherton, Count Basie and Top Friend and Platoon Leader Frank Sinatra...
...always, Updike's lean, acrobatic prose makes his performance look effortless: sunlight is "like raw ore still heaped on the upper half of the barn wall," birds on a wire "darkly punctuated an invisible sentence." One sweep of his pen can illuminate whole facets of life: after Joey's mother suffers a severe and terrifying attack of angina, 11-year-old Richard hurries to the homestead to see "a parade he was afraid of missing and afraid of catching...
There are flaws. Richard, for instance, is meant to be a bright and appealing 11-year-old boy, but he sometimes sounds like a greybeard. "That's an ancient philosophical problem," he says to Joey in response to the latter's observation that "the ideal and the real" are hard to reconcile. Joey's mother deserves a larger setting than the author has given her. She is a marvelous, angular, slightly awesome old woman who is held together by the negative and negating force of her character...