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...least walk? She has had to prove herself constantly--to her nightclub-impresario father, to the male-dominated hierarchy at NBC and later ABC, to the critics who don't think news and entertainment should be mixed. "I don't see why not," says Walters, who knew Milton Berle when she was a little girl and dated Roy Cohn in college. "Edward R. Murrow interviewed celebrities." Then there was the cbs producer who told her back in 1957, "You're a marvelous girl, but stay out of television." The producer, by the way, was Don Hewitt, now the executive producer...
Texaco Star Theater was Milton Berle's showcase...
...punctuated by gunshots, suffices for a two-hour screenplay. Maybe cybertechnology just came along too late, after we had already entered what postmodernists call the postword era. Which would mean that we have no more use for our supersophisticated communications technology than a chimpanzee has for a volume of Milton. If you can't eat it and you can't squish fleas with it, you might as well use it to masturbate with...
...when a young man named Elvis took this raw, untainted music from his heart and shared it with the world. Ask Led Zeppelin, the Rolling Stones, ZZ Top or many others which individuals influenced them, and it becomes all too clear: B.B. King, John Lee Hooker, Robert Johnson, Little Milton. Rock 'n' roll's parents were the Mississippi Delta blues. But this music will keep on truckin' and will grow--with or without a museum in Cleveland. JEROME SHEFFIELD Aberdeen Lake, Mississippi...
...fighting was more like avenging an insult to your team. Among my boyhood friends were Victor Ramirez, Walter Schwartz, Manny Garcia, Melvin Klein. The Kleins were the first family in our building to have a television set. Every Tuesday night we crowded into Mel's living room to watch Milton Berle. On Thursdays we watched Amos 'n' Andy. We thought the show was marvelous, the best thing on television. It was another age, and we did not know that we were not supposed to like Amos 'n' Andy...