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...plaintiff, in a Los Angeles court, called for the dissolution of Lewislor Films, Inc., producer of NBC-TV's Loretta Young Show, charged company bosses with "dishonesty, mismanagement and unfairness." The plaintiff: Adman Tom Lewis, 55; codefendant: the company president, Cinemactress Loretta Young, Lewis' wife for almost 18 years. Said Lewis: "It has no personal implications." Said Actress Young: "No comment...
Jack ("I'm live!") Paar had hardly launched himself as NBC's bright weeknightly answer to late movies when he began playing Pygmalion to a professionally addled Galatea from Ohio, orange-topped Dolores ("Dody") Martha Goodman, "aged 29" (real age: 43). By last week, seven months later, the comedienne that Jack built had "disenchanted" her creator, and Paar felt less a Pygmalion than a Frankenstein. "Sweet little Midwestern Dody," he snorted. "Brother! And we did it-we made...
After that, they rarely spoke off the air except through intermediaries. In December Dody was cut down from five to three performances a week. Her shrewd manager renegotiated her five-year NBC contract, guaranteeing her $26,000 for the next 26 weeks, whether she appears with Paar or not, and freeing her for other work. In the deal the Jack Paar Show gladly arranged to drop her as a "regular" last week...
Fury stars a horse in its title role, but, insist its makers, the popular NBC daytime children's show is not another western "because it has no Indians and no saloons." What Fury does have sets it prairies apart from other outdoor TV films. Packed with each Saturday morning episode (11 a.m., E.S.T.) is a plain little moral. It may be a homely little philosophical truth or a wholesome primer on civil defense, bicycle safety, wildlife preservation or freedom of the press. Last week Fury's young friends ran into trouble with a predatory cougar because they...
Bingo's overnight success fits right in with TV's new rage for parlor games, which are cheap to produce and pull in good ratings. This week NBC will replace its Arlene Francis Show with a new game called Dough-Re-Mi. CBS is planning to put on Win-Go instead of The Eve Arden Show, will switch from Dick and the Duchess to Lucky Dollar, is also grooming three other games...