Word: kate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Naturally, Marya Mannes, thinly disguised as a bright, sixtyish, musically inclined writer named Kate, winds up like that, in her family's year-round beach house. Along with her is an aging cross section of the New York cultural scene: a ham-fisted objective painter and his ex-model wife, a famous composer of Broadway show tunes, a celebrated ex-Viennese conductor...
...group decides to die together when the time comes, instead of waiting for the agency truck to pick them up. Meanwhile, they will leave a record of their comments on the generation gap, their values, a personal account of what they loved most. Set down by Kate, this testament is liveliest when it reflects Marya Mannes' own penchant for high-class invective. During their sex talks, the painter howl-, "Don't tell me the sexual revolution was made by those pre-nubile, fur-bearing match-sticks...
Humanist Trinity. But Kate's assessment suffers when she tries to defend such stoic values as "Discipline, Responsibility, and Grace"-a humanist trinity of behavior that at times can be confused with Repression, Conformity and Manners...
Died. Bea Benaderet, 62, character actress, who starred as the folksy, warmhearted Kate Bradley in TV's Petticoat Junction; of lung cancer; in Los Angeles. After years of bending her voice on radio into every accent from Brooklyn to the Ozarks as a comic foil for Fibber McGee and Molly, and Jack Benny, Bea finally got a chance to show her face on TV. In 1950, she appeared as Blanche Morton on The George Burns-Gracie Allen Show and in 1962, as Cousin Pearl on The Beverly Hillbillies, before graduating to Petticoat Junction...
Died. George White, 78, theatrical producer, whose flashy, fleshy Scandals vied with Ziegfeld's Follies and Earl Carroll's Vanities as the top Broadway attraction of the 1920s and '30s; of leukemia; in Hollywood. White introduced such future stars as Kate Smith, Ray Bolger, Rudy Vallee and Eleanor Powell to the Great White Way-which he always claimed was named...