Word: muffs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with phony arguments. Item: Van Doren said that he repeatedly wanted to get off the show, but that Producer Albert Freedman would not free him. No Congressman bothered to ask why Van Doren did not retire, or, if he wanted to be more polite about it, did not intentionally muff a question to get out of the isolation booth. Item: Van Doren testified that he was making a clean breast of the whole sordid story for the benefit of his "millions" of friends-and particularly one unnamed woman whose letter had moved him. In fact, he was cornered...
Italy's muff-haired Domenico Modugno, a guitar-plunking crooner with a gypsy wail, turns out lyrics that make no sense, and he cannot read the music he composes and sings. But last year his song Volare (To Fly) was the world's biggest hit, with 7,000,000 records sold, including 2,000,000 for Decca Records in the U.S. alone. Last week Modugno, glowing in a powder-blue tuxedo, weepily twanged his latest effort, Piove (It's Raining), at the annual San Remo Song Festival, walked off with the festival prize-no cash...
...when, as a virtually unknown, 25-year-old assistant conductor of the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra, he triumphantly substituted for ailing Bruno Walter ? without rehearsal. "Like a shoe string catch in center field," explained the New York Daily News. "Make it and you're a hero. Muff it and you're a dope . . . Bernstein made...
...Mercury General Sales Manager Joe Bayne, an old radio veteran who had worked with Major Bowes in the heyday of his Amateur Hour, says: "It took us less than 20 minutes to decide on Ed Sullivan. It was crystal clear. Ed was a second Major Bowes. Bowes used tc muff the English language. Ed does too. But the thing about the two of them is their genuineness and truthfulness. So we said, 'We'll buy Sullivan for 13 weeks.' " The 13 weeks has lengthened into seven years. Contemplating his handiwork, Bayne remarks: "Every period since then...
Actor's Muff. On one level, the film v. live-TV fight is an artistic squabble. Producers and directors of such live shows as Studio One, U.S. Steel Hour and Philco Goodyear TV Playhouse argue that the theaterlike thrill of live TV cannot be captured on film, and that live performances hold more excitement and spontaneity. Replies Film-Maker Hal Roach-"Who wants to see a stagehand in the wrong place, or hear an actor muff his lines? That's what spontaneity means...