Word: kerrs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thursday, March 27 THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIES (CBS. 9-11:10 p.m.). A seedy ex-priest turned tourist guide (Richard Burton) suffers Deborah Kerr, Ava Gardner and Sue Lyon in Tennessee Williams' The Night of the Iguana...
...Kerr's school is less Cordon Bleu than Folies-Bergere. On Julia Child's low-budget public TV series, the wine was faked with a mixture of water and Gravy Master. Graham guzzles the real stuff from a goblet throughout the program (in seeming violation of Article 3, Section 17 of the Broadcasters' Code). His other constant prop is an arch smirk. He prances onto the kitchen set the way Sugar Ray Robinson used to approach the ring, then pirouettes so that the tittering ladies in the studio audience can admire his costume du jour...
Slurps and Glugs. Kerr keeps the kitchen asmoke with naughty innuendoes. The Chinese, he notes, considered parsley stalks a mild aphrodisiac, but he finds that "you need a bushel to really get you cracking." Twice within a few days, he observed during the closing segment of the show: "There are two things a man can still do for a woman [pregnant pause]. The other one is to carve the roast on Sunday...
Those closers are the quintessential Kerr. The dish has been carried into a dining-room set that looks like something left over by Liberace. Candles are aglow. Violins are playing Chopin or The Man I Love. Kerr's lips tremble with rapture. He blows kisses to his own cuisine and launches into the most passionate eating scenes since Tom Jones. Occasionally he falls as flat as a novice's souffle. He once referred to the trimming of mushroom stems for a steak-kidney-mushroom-and-oyster pie as "a small circumcision." He crimped the edge of a piecrust...
...Kerr is entertaining, but his casual, anything-for-a-laugh approach can only confuse his less-experienced students. He never uses a measuring cup and knocks Fanny Farmer for her chemistry-class precision. But how are his viewers going to know that a Kerr "short slurp" equals one fluid ounce or that "one glug" means one and a half? Julia Child, appalled by his use of canned asparagus and packaged ham slices, writes his program off as "a desecration of fine cooking." He is producing "a personality show or a ladies' show," she says. "He's a tall...