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...Reading about Lee Marvin's well-deserved Academy Award [April 29] reminds me of the story he told [June 4] about putting the "white eye" on me and scaring me so badly on a live TV show that I dropped my pistol. Lee is a very funny mythomaniac. Enclosed is the moldy kinescope of that show done nine years ago: it shows I hold on to the pistol even when dead. As my father remarked, "That boy's dropped a lot of things in his life, but I doubt he would drop a pistol...
Tattered Memories. But that was all the show. Inside, as color-TV cameras recorded the event for 60 million viewers, the Oscar derby seemed more ticky-tack than ever. Even Bob Hope seemed off his feed ("I can't drink like Lee Marvin, grunt like Rod Steiger or enunciate like Sir Laurence Olivier. And when it comes to Richard Burton, I'm really in trouble"). What was billed as entertainment made The Beverly Hillbillies look good. The choreography was out of Busby Berkley; the filmed interviews with former winners seemed like tattered memories from a discarded album...
When it came to awards, the night belonged to The Sound of Music, which won five, including the prizes for the best picture and best director (Robert Wise). Veteran Lee Marvin, 42, the hilarious mugger in Cat Ballon, was best actor. The best-actress award amounted to a battle of Julies: Andrews (for Sound of Music) and Christie (for Darling) -and Christie won it. For their performances in supporting roles, Martin Balsam got an Oscar for A Thousand Clowns, and Shelley Winters got her second (her first, in 1959: The Diary of Anne Frank) for A Patch of Blue...
CHRYSLER PRESENTS THE BOB HOPE COMEDY SPECIAL (NBC, 9-10 p.m.)* Hamming it up with Bob are Guests Lee Marvin, Jonathan Winters and Phyllis Diller. Originally scheduled for March 16, but postponed for Gemini...
...White House. He signaled the scarlet-coated Marine Band to strike up Hello, Dolly!, fox-trotted with more than a dozen partners. Despite the rule that nobody leaves a social event before the President does, only a handful of the 140 guests managed to outlast him. Even Aides Marvin Watson and Jack Valenti, one of whom usually escorts the President to his White House bedroom each night, ducked out quietly while their boss danced...