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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...incapacitated nine others, including Hurok, who was briefly hospitalized and then released. The second was detonated in the office of Columbia Artists, another talent agency, which was luckily almost empty; most of the employees had not yet arrived for work. Within minutes, anonymous callers to the Associated Press and NBC claimed that the bombs had been set to protest "the deaths and imprisonment of Soviet Jews." They also shouted the slogan of the Jewish Defense League: "Never again...
...that just before he died, Gabriel told several people that he was a political prisoner and was being used as a human guinea pig in a Czech cancer-research center prior to escaping-events that Vlasta hotly denies and indeed seem unlikely. Last November the children appeared on an NBC television news program expressing their wish not to go back to the place where "they put daddy in prison because he believed in God." That appeal generated considerable response from the people of Yucaipa, who have so far contributed $2,500 to a legal defense fund...
...ratings bear witness to Wilson's success at comedy and to his appeal to whites as well as blacks. In their second season on NBC-which, Flip jokes, now really is "the full-color network"-Flip, Geraldine and his other characters have become regular Thursday-night fare for an estimated 40 million Americans. In recent Nielsen ratings, The Flip Wilson Show has been the No. 1 variety entry and the No. 2 show of any kind (after CBS's situation comedy All in the Family). Sponsors' money has followed the audience, and NBC now charges...
Unusual Format. That effort begins each Monday with a reading of the script in Rehearsal Room 4 at NBC's Burbank, Calif., studios. Flip writes about a third of his material himself and sometimes arouses the ire of his writers by heavily editing the rest. While the reading is going on, an assistant sticks tape on the floor to map out the movements. Rehearsals begin on Tuesday. A general runthrough follows on Wednesday, and Thursday is camera-blocking day, when the performers work with camera crews. On Friday at 5 p.m. there is a dress rehearsal, with final taping...
After one disastrous attempt at a TV special in 1968-taped but never shown-Flip and his manager, Monte Kay, found the successful formula for his famous NBC special in 1969, which introduced Geraldine as an airline stewardess in a sketch with Jonathan Winters' gray-haired Maude Frickert. The network offered him his own show the next year, and he was off and away. When you're hot, you really are hot. His net income is well upward of $1,000,000 a year. This comes mainly from earnings from his show and royalties from his four comedy...