Word: nipsey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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COMEDY IS KING II (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Alan King leads a group of guests in a satirical look at contemporary life. Among the jaundiced eyes: Shirley Jones, Leslie Uggams, Tony Randall, Jack Carter, Nipsey Russell and Linda Lavin...
SOUL (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). The producers of Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In, George Schlatter and Ed Friendly, have more irreverence and irrelevance in store in this all-black musical variety special; stars include Lou Rawls, George Kirby and Nipsey Russell...
...Crusades. Tuesday concerns itself mainly with Negroes-and, in the first issue, with successful, middle-class Negroes. It has articles on CBS Reporter Joan Murray, Golf Pro Charlie Sifford, Comedians Godfrey Cambridge, Dick Gregory and Nipsey Russell, a Chicago law firm of four Harvard-trained Negroes, and Marian Anderson at home. It runs a Washington column that focuses on news of Negro politicians and civil rights, a teen page, and reviews of books about Negroes. It also has a "Tuesday Opportunities" section, which emphasizes that there are plenty of job chances for Negroes...
...Show. Martin Luther King himself left in mid-march to make a speech in Cleveland, returned to the procession a few miles outside Montgomery. He walked about 27 miles in all. That night, a batch of high-priced and highly diversified entertainers-such as Sammy Davis Jr., Nipsey Russell, Shelley Winters, Floyd Patterson, Harry Belafonte, Leonard Bernstein-performed for thousands packed in a muddy field in Montgomery...
Rental Service. Cambridge gets as much as $4,000 a week. Like his fellow comedians Bill Cosby, Nipsey Russell and Dick Gregory, he is in all respects a headliner, working the best places, such as San Francisco's hungry i and Hollywood's Crescendo. Cosby, a tall and soft-spoken former Temple University halfback, refuses to make racial jokes, on the moot ground that they demean the race. He talks about kindergarten and old radio shows instead, and sets up an imaginary football game between college boys and mature gorillas. Nipsey Russell claims that he similarly tries...