Word: nbc
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ENTERTAINMENT: NBC's The Dinah Shore Show and Hallmark Hall of Fame...
Bounding off a Soviet TU-104 jet airliner at Moscow airport, Comedian Bob Hope got a bleak stare from a heavily bearded Russian when he asked: "How're you fixed for blades?" So it went for his seven-day visit to shoot film for his April 5 NBC show. Hope's Western brand of humor was largely wasted on the Russians, even when translated, but his running quips on Soviet life traveled well to the folks back home...
Back in the era when the loudspeaker was edging out the speakeasy among U.S. pastimes, a pair of second-rate jazz singers stood before a microphone at NBC's WMAQ in Chicago, shifted into heavy Negro dialect, and gave birth to a national institution. Within two years the Amos 'n' Andy show of Freeman Gosden (Amos, Kingfish et al.) and Charles Correll (Andy) was radio's first great popular craze, so captivating that U.S. telephone calls soon fell off 50% between 7 p.m. and 7:15, and movie theaters stopped their films to pipe...
...Hearst's New York Journal-American and 250 other U.S. papers, pudgy Jack O'Brian, 43, writes a daily column that is lively, readable, and regularly a thorn in all sides of the TV industry. Last week, violating one of show business' most sacred taboos, NBC's Comedian Steve Allen took a deep breath and told Critic O'Brian off. He filled six columns of Manhattan's Greenwich Village weekly Village Voice in lambasting O'Brian as "the only TV critic in the nation who is rude, inaccurate, unchristian and vengeful...
...Good Night." NBC stoutly denied any feud on the show, but last week the feuding drowned out the denials. "I'll tell you why we cut her," Paar erupted before one show. "Does one say 'Your fly's open' on the air? Or do you take out a falsy before the camera? No other person has ever confronted me with such embarrassment or provocation. Oh she's terribly bright-very shrewd, calculating. You notice how she fiddles at her skirt scratches, waves to the audience. That's her method of competing. I tell...