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...Party by Revlon (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). Rock Hudson is host. The guests are Tallu, Sammy Davis Jr., Mort Sahl, Esther Williams, Lisa Kirk. And the theory is that the whole crew will kick in with spontaneous entertainment...
...muttered Mortimer as he stripped his friendly Pollack copies from the wall. "Back to the old, old way of life," he remarked dully, bringing his pipe, polished loafers and Tchaikowsky collection to the fore. "The only way to preserve one's private identity today is to be a cold." Mort sucked on his pipe for solace...
...another, a worrier may still brood. Now that an evening of parlor singing can be bought at a record store, eliminating the need for any actual singing in the parlor, why not a night's recorded conversation, eliminating the need to talk? Possible titles: Sneer Along with Mort Sahl, Rant and Rave with Senator Eastland, Analyze with Famous Freudian and Moan and Groan with Joseph Alsop...
...Mort Sahl, 32, the original sicknik, now makes $300,000 a year, but still manages to see the worm in the golden apple. Right alongside Sahl in the hierarchy of disease is Jonathan Winters, 33, a roly-poly brainy-zany who has spent most of the past two months as a patient in his favorite subject for humor: the funny farm. While these two once seemed more or less alone in their strange specialty, it is now clear that the virus has spread. Perhaps a dozen other sickniks-some newcomers, some oldtimers with brand-new syndromes-are cleaning...
...Newport's, and most of them feature the same names, though in lesser concentration. Playboy magazine, having been refused permission to use Chicago's Soldier Field, has contracted for Chicago Stadium (seating 20,000). The likes of Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basic, Stan Kenton and Cool Comic Mort Sahl (see SHOW BUSINESS) will perform from a revolving stage, facing an audience decked out in souvenir Playboy jazz blazers and skimmers...