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...Security is really tight in the President's box. One agent checked me for bombs and threw out half my monologue.' " Hope's memory is as big as his desert mansion. Today's one-liner is stored away for use as tomorrow's ad lib. "Pseudosmart. That's the way I describe my stuff." says he. "I want the audience to enjoy it like...
Rightists and leftists reacted with rare unanimity. "Freedom has taken a vacation," declared the opposition daily Le Quotidien de Paris. Complained the leftist Libération: "They have stolen our liberties for a fistful of dollars." In Paris, more than 3,000 people marched to the Finance Ministry, chanting, "Vacations! Liberty...
...sang like a frog and played his ever present ukulele like a hunt-and-peck typist. He talked with his mouth full and tossed aside his script to ad-lib whatever came into his head. He had no talent but folksiness. For Arthur Godfrey, that was enough. At his peak in the 1950s he was, after President Eisenhower, perhaps the best-loved man in America. Godfrey's daily radio show and two weekly TV shows on CBS brought the network as much as 12% of its total revenue. Said CBS Chairman William Paley of Godfrey in his heyday...
...revival relies largely on the original script, and employs costumes and stage settings almost identical to those of the Broadway production. But Kirkwood says he felt it was important to "bring the show up to date," so the actors were encouraged to ad lib in rehearsals and to "try different characters on for size," according to Harvey Zuckerman, a member of the cast...
...five-hour whip through the Boston area Wednesday, President Reagan touted high-technology electronics and computer firms as "America's future" and met with both plant officials and students in training at a local center. But an ad-lib comment to executives calling for the elimination of corporate income taxes ended up attracting the most attention...