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...cinemoguls once frothed when Lana Turner let slip to an interviewer that she had five TV sets, and Beverly Hills Furrier Al Teitlebaum had a customer who, aspiring to dramatize his contempt, ordered a TV set covered in skunk fur. Now TV sets glitter within Romanoff's and during lunchtime in the executive dining rooms of major studios, where the executives claim they use TV for casting ideas. Jack Benny has seven sets. TV exerts such a spell on movie stars-especially when it happens to be showing their old films-that it has rendered the movie colony housebound...
...Lana at Peak Hours. Viewers had little cause for complaint, except where too many commercials studded the movies to pay off their huge costs. Some network executives professed to be unworried; they said that affiliates are showing the big movies on their own time, not during the choice hours pledged to networks. But NBC, staunch champion of "live" television (in part because of its deep involvement in color TV) is frankly fretting...
...revamping the show-though, gamely, still on a live basis. What NBC dreads is that it may one day be helpless to accommodate an advertiser on its full national network because too many of its ISO-odd "optional" affiliates will be engrossed by Robert Taylor making love to Lana Turner at peak hours...
Divorced. Artie Shaw, 45, clarinet-tootling bandleader, author of the self-analytical autobiography The Trouble with Cinderella; by wife No. 7, onetime Cinemactress Doris Dowling, 32; after nearly four years of marriage, one child; in Las Vegas, Nev. Among Shaw's better-known former wives: Cinemactresses Lana Turner and Ava Gardner (Nos. 3, 5), Novelist Kathleen (Forever Amber) Winsor...
...Henry II invariably wears the expression of a peevish raisin. For a time, the spectator is able to identify himself with the plight of Henry, who is said to be in mortal danger from a frightful bore. As things turn out, the script is not referring to Lana-just some wild pig. So the boar gores, but the gore bores, and the only consolation is offered by Sir Cedric Hardwicke, who is all dressed up like a wizard and looks sorry he did it, even for all that money. "What will be," says Sir Cedric mysteriously, "will...