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Within a month or two, A.C. Nielsen, the Grim Rater, will probably have cast down at least a few of these new comedies. But the networks have already groomed such summer-tested replacements as Sonny and Cher and British Comic Marty Feldman. Also waiting in the wings at CBS is splenetic and iconoclastic Don Rickles, who in the pilot for his next TV incarnation is cast as an advertising executive presumably with executioner power over TV shows. Given the quality of the new-season series to date, Rickles will not want for real-life material on which to exercise...
...them womanize and swashbuckle around the Cote d'Azur "in the name of justice." For all their jet-set airs, their plebeian repartee and stupefying plots make Roger and Tony emerge more like Batman and Robin in ascots. Catch the show fast lest the Nielsen ratings get there first...
...Johnson is in Duluth, but he asked me to tell you that I'm his maid, and that he loves you all very much.' " Cohen also manages to give honorary Tonys to stars who may not fit the contest categories but are likely to raise the Nielsen rating or deliver particularly urbane acceptance remarks. Leonard Bernstein foxed Alex in 1969 by wondering before a nationwide audience why he was there, having "contributed precisely nothing to the Broadway musical scene for twelve years...
...with war-horse concertos. Instead, after sharing first prize with Vladimir Ashkenazy in Moscow's 1962 Tchaikovsky Competition, he became an evangelist for music that few other major pianists would touch. One of his best LP albums is devoted entirely to some of the piano music of Carl Nielsen (RCA), another to Ferruccio Busoni's hour-long piano concerto (Angel), a woolly and wonderful specimen of Germanic post-romanticism that includes a resounding men's chorus in the finale. Following this bent, Ogdon has become one of the exponents of the current romantic revival. That revival...
...wedding plans are definitely off, said catlike Eartha Kitt, 40, in London last week. Then she added earthily, "I love him so much." Him was Ole Broen-dum-Nielsen, 32, a rich Danish manufacturer of sound equipment. She had announced her engagement the week before over a Birmingham radio station. At that time Ole's bemused reaction to the news was: "I have solved Miss Kitt's electroacoustic problems. But from that to marriage is a long jump...