Word: nbc
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wednesday, December 27 THE KRAFT MUSIC HALL (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).-"Woody Allen Looks at 1967" with a satiric eye, calling on Conservative William F. Buckley Jr. for comment, Aretha Franklin and Liza Minnelli for musical assistance...
...turned over to the National War Fund. By 1949, his movies-Monsieur Beaucaire, The Paleface, Sorrowful Jones, My Favorite Brunette-had established him as Hollywood's top box-office draw. The next year, he decided to get into TV "before Milton Berle uses up all my material." NBC paid him $40,000 for his first special. That same year, he won a Peabody Award for The Quick and the Dead, a four-part radio documentary on atomic energy, produced by Fred Friendly...
...given up radio, but has increased his TV specials to nine a year, in addition to guest shots. Just a few weeks ago, busy as he was putting together his Viet Nam touring company, he taped a Hollywood Palace show with Crosby for ABC as well as his own NBC Christmas show. He also cranks out a movie a year, the last few of which have been excessively cornball-an embarrassment to his old fans. The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell, which he just wrapped up this month with Phyllis Diller, is likely to be more...
...legendary loyalty to his old vaudeville cronies, his brothers,- distant kin, in-laws of distant kin, acquaintances, agents and NBC ("30 unbroken years, and I've enjoyed every dollar of the relationship"). His wardrobe girl is an invalid who works from a wheelchair. He has seen to it that his old sidekick, Jerry Colonna, semipar-alyzed by a stroke, gets plenty of work...
Died. Irving Gitlin, 49, producer of some of TV's best documentaries; of leukemia; in Manhattan. A onetime CBS newsman (Twentieth Century), Gitlin switched to NBC in 1960 and filmed his White Paper series on such prickly subjects as U.S. welfare policy, civil rights, and 1964's Cuba, an analysis of the Bay of Pigs invasion that won an Emmy...