Word: milton
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...outsize cigars and outlandish hyperbole, would have trouble overstating the scope of his popularity. As main attraction and chief architect of The Cosby Show, television's No. 1-rated program for three straight seasons, he dominates the medium as no star has since the days of Lucille Ball and Milton Berle. And he has parlayed his TV success into a multimedia empire that seems to grow like the tall tales the young stand-up comic once spun out of his Philadelphia childhood...
...Biden story didn't end here. If it had, we could at least have given him the Milton Berle award for knowing (and stealing) good material when he sees it. His problems, unfortunately, run deeper and deservedly should KO his presidential candidacy...
...back. Well, sort of. Howdy will be celebrating Howdy Doody's 40th anniversary this fall in + a nationally syndicated TV special. Roger Mure, who produced both the special and the original series on NBC, describes the new Howdy as a "cross between Hollywood and Doodyville." The show will feature Milton Berle, Gary Coleman and Monty Hall, as well as old pals like Robert ("Buffalo Bob") Smith, 69. In recent years Smith has made a second career of appearances at colleges and shopping malls, playing to audiences who grew up on Howdy Doody. Comparing them with the peanut gallery assembled...
Although Neurosurgeon Milton Avol usually lives in comfort in Beverly Hills, at the moment he can be found among disgruntled tenants in his own vermin- infested tenement in Los Angeles. Avol, 64, has been sentenced to live in his building for 30 days while monitored by an electronic device on his leg. The physician earned the nickname "Ratlord" after accumulating hundreds of health- and building-code violations on his four Los Angeles apartment houses since...
...likes the risk of live performance. "You have to perform now and then, to keep stage fright under control." He waves away the idea of a talk show as "death by interview." What does interest him is the kind of television variety show Sid Caesar, Ed Sullivan and Milton Berle used to do. He is not really comfortable with TV; there is an army of people to deal with, and someone like himself, who communicates in silences, isn't good at that. Still...