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...including a near fatal 20-ft. fall. Though she suffered a broken jaw, five facial fractures and a broken arm, it took only three months for her to get back on the nightclub circuit. Now she is ready to go before a nationwide audience and is busy taping the NBC special When You're Smiling, to be aired April 4. Gussied up in silk, energetically doing high kicks as the notorious "lady in red" who did in Gangster John Dillinger, Ann-Margret looked better than ever. Said she: "I'm myself again...
Appearing on NBC's Tonight Show, Truman Capote told Television Host Johnny Carson that he and his friends were playing the most wonderful new game. What was it? Johnny asked. Well, said Truman, you list as fast as you can the 25 most boring people you know. The trick is to name people everyone else thinks are fascinating. Truman's top bores: First, Howard Hughes, because "who cares about his reclusion, his plane flights, his hiding and his money." Second, Aristotle Onassis, because "all he is doing is sitting in the corner of a nightclub thinking of ways...
...NBC's Barbara Walters was not exactly happy that CBS's Marvin Kalb beat her to Henry Kissinger for an exclusive post-cease-fire interview. Barbara said that she had been planning the interview for three years and had Kissinger's word that she would be first. "This was a case of conflict between his word and what the White House planned," explained Barbara. Her feelings were somewhat soothed by a call from President Nixon, who assured her during a ten-minute conversation that after Kissinger's trip to China there would be "enough to talk...
...years, NBC'S Johnny Carson was the undisputed king of late-night television. During part of that time, CBS and ABC scarcely bothered to try to topple him from the peak of the Nielsen ratings. When they did, as in CBS'S venture with Merv Griffin in a Carson-style format, they flopped. CBS eventually gave up and last year opted for the sizable audience of insomniacs who want nothing more than to watch old movies. Now ABC thinks that it has found still a third audience with what it calls its Wide World of Entertainment...
...tapes and cassettes are proceeding apace. The latest innovation: a video cassette that will show a live performance even as the music is being played. At the same time, more and more TV outlets are booking pop-record stars, opening up further possibilities for intermedia promotion; both ABC and NBC are experimenting with late-night programs featuring rock groups...