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...cheerful unwed mother with both humor and delicacy. The way the part is written, she could come out sounding like a cut-rate whore, and apparently the strain of battling the built-in deficiencies of the role made her decide to quit. Eileen Heckart, as an often Auntie Mame-like Deedee Grogan, handles wise-cracks, insults, and pathos equally well, and looks appropriately garish in Miss Ballard's costumes. Madeleine Sherwood is hateful enough as Norma's mother, and Richard Derr, as the father of many, is grey flannel through and through...
Guestward Ho! (ABC), a series based on a book by Patrick Dennis (Auntie Mame) and Barbara Hooton, follows a New York family to New Mexico, where they open a dude ranch. The first episode was as dull as the wrinkled eyelid...
Guestward Ho! (ABC, 7:30-8 p.m.). Premiere of a new series-based on the book by Patrick Dennis and Barbara Hooton-about dude-ranch life, always trying to stay with the Mame chance...
...huge fiesta at the ranch, featuring a Mexican band, platters of $2.50-per-lb. beef barbecue, hundreds of Mexican tricolors, 800 goggle-eyed guests, and a sign, prominently displayed on a tree: LYNDON JOHNSON SERÁ PRESIDENTE. Johnson and López Mateos made an entrance worthy of Auntie Mame in a helicopter, followed by Harry Truman and Mister Sam in another, smaller helicopter. It was, according to a Dallas reporter, "one of the most dramatic outdoor shows since they produced Aïda with live elephants...
During 53 minutes, she somehow seems to use as many props as a juggler and wriggle through as many costume changes as Auntie Mame, comes out for the finale, Limehouse Blues, in an Oriental gown and Chinese makeup. She sings hot songs (Anything Goes) and cool (Why Can't You Behave), as well as specialty numbers, e.g., Good Little Girls Go to Heaven ("and smart little girls go to Bergdorf's"). Her primary gifts are a voice with volume where she wants it and a figure to match. She can be sultry and sexy, playful and cute, lonely...