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Since there is nothing like a dame, only a cockeyed optimist could confuse Bob Hope with the real thing. The comedian shed his golf togs and donned a tropically fruity outfit for this week's NBC-TV special celebrating his 78th birthday and the 40th anniversary of the U.S.O. During the taping at West Point before 25,000 cadets, officers and onlookers, Hope sprang eternal. He sparred with Sugar Ray Leonard and teamed up with Mary Martin, 67, to reprise a number from South Pacific. "If I entered the Miss U.S.A. contest,"said Hope, "I'd probably...
...Americans out of a chair and make them do something (they gave him the Democratic nomination on the spot), once described eloquence as "thought on fire." Today, in an age of single-issue politics, the ambitious are careful to see that they do not get burned. Says NBC-TV's Edwin Newman: "Advertising, public relations and polling techniques create attitudes that are designed to appeal to a large number of people. These attitudes tend to flatten out a speech." Political speeches may soon be written by computers: pretested paragraphs are tried out on people for reactions, then fed into...
With Scotch and certitude, he became Washington Post Editor Ben Bradlee in the movie All the President's Men. Now, with legendary cigarette-holder, Actor Jason Robards is Franklin D. Roosevelt in an NBC-TV teleplay, F.D.R: The Last Year. The three-hour show, to be aired this spring, is likely to be memorable for two reasons. One is Robards' portrayal of the four-term 32nd President in his twilight, down to a remarkable re-enactment of Roosevelt's heart attack and death at Warm Springs, Ga., in 1945 during a portrait sitting. The other is that...
...casting call for Bob Hope's NBC-TV special next week was for girls who considered themselves elevens-compared with Bo Derek's ten, of course. Three hundred stunners showed up for six wiggle-on parts in the show, a lighthearted Charlie's Angels take-off about undercover girls in the garment trade. Hope's daughter Linda, the special's producer, made the initial selections; her father, in sport togs and golf cap, did the final choosing. "I went through 150 girls and three pacemakers," chortled Bob, 76. Observed Linda: "For once in his life...
Lesley Ann Warren ages 38 years in six hours in the upcoming NBC-TV epic Beulah Land, about ante-and post-bellum days on a Savannah, Ga., plantation. For good ole boys, the best scenes are ante. Prewar Warren is a demure but determined plantation mistress arching through Georgia with much of her Mason-Dixon lines swelling out of Deep South decolletage. Beulah Land was actually filmed in Natchez, Miss., where plantations have been preserved and the Southern accent is so pervasive that the Manhattan-raised actress found it easier to slip into y'alls than into cum bersome...