Word: levant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jack Paar Program (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Among the guests: Oscar Levant...
...today is that its proprietor has gone straight. Hollywood accepted him in the first place because an actor of Romanoff's caliber could not go unrewarded in a city of actors. "Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you find the real tinsel underneath," said Oscar Levant. Mike Romanoff was the real tinsel, a phony who wore his phoniness with such transparent innocence that it turned away wrath...
After-dinner musicales in the East Room of the White House have been rather distressing in recent years. During the Eisenhower occupancy there were the schmalzy tunes of Hildegarde and Lawrence Welk. Before that, Oscar Levant played for company, but in the family circle there were the shaky soprano of Margaret Truman and her father's ricki-tick piano. Going back to the F.D.R. years, there was Kate Smith. Last week the Kennedys changed all that, with an evening of chamber music that sent shards of rapture through the world of serious music...
...lack of daring, has been, to use his favorite verb, denigrating Hollywood for years. "Hollywood has an advanced case of intellectual leprosy." he says. "It is sterile and bland. a place of languor and procrastination, of overwhelming provincialism." Hollywood's responses are equally engaging. "Susskind." says Oscar Levant, "is salami dipped in chicken fat." Yet there was Susskind. out in the Hollywood provinces last week, and not just to carry the battle to the enemy's home ground. He was there to show the languorous natives how to make motion pictures-and money. Among the Barbarians. Producing...
...palaces belonging to Saudi Arabia's Premier Feisal. Azzam worked for a year, putting in everything from air conditioning to electric-eye doors, but had trouble collecting bills and ended up without a profit. Turning to music, he organized a combo and began picking up engagements around the Levant, hit it biggest in Lebanon with his "slow rocks," "fox rocks" and boleros...