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George S. Kaufman, Dorothy Parker, Oscar Levant, Noel Coward, Malcolm Muggeridge, Mary Martin, Judy Garland, etc. It all depends on whose ox is being goosed...
Golenpaul helped sift the questions from listeners who for more than a decade tried to stump such quick wits as Critic Clifton Fadiman, Pianist Oscar Levant and Sportswriter John Kieran...
...best musicals to come out of the tuneful fifties, although there is not enough Fred Astaire in it. Mr. Fred is an aging hoofer who is persuaded to come back to co-star with Cyd Charisse in her stage debut. Nanette Fabray is completely obnoxious, but the irascible Oscar Levant consistently manages to upstage her. The highlight is a dance number with Astaire as a private eye and Charisse as the sleazy streetwalker in distress. Lots of good songs, and a plot so old that you just have to love it. Channel 3. 9:00 p.m.--The Battling Bellhop...
...Almost all the old faces-living and dead-were there. Peggy Cass sat in as Paar's answer to Ed McMahon, introducing Paar and doing commercials. Genevieve, whose funny French accent Paar discovered, was a guest, along with such other oldtime regulars as Jonathan Winters. Even Pianist Oscar Levant, who died last year, came back-in a replay of a show from the early...
MONDAY: Jack Paar Tonite, No kidding. The mercurial late-night talk host returns to the post-prime hours, after a ten-year absence, on a one-week-a-month basis. This week's guests include actress Goldie Hawn. Once Levant's widow June, country music's Loretta Lynn, author David Halberstan '55, and candid cameraman Allen Funt. CH. 5. 11:30 p.m. Color...