Word: offbeaters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...face, ballyhooed as an "offbeat, low-pressure Wally Cox-Will Rogers type," was crewcut George Gobel (Sat. 10 p.m., NBC). Straining at a deadpan, Midwestern delivery ("Wai, I'll be a dirty bird"), Gobel was better at dialogue than monologue. The show's two sketches were unpretentious, underplayed and very funny...
...Girls. Coates, a 33-year-old New Yorker, lined up a cameraman and a producer-the Mirror's former assistant news editor, Jim Peck. He called his show Confidential File and set out to find some offbeat stories. He did not have to search far. His first show exposed the B-girl (barroom shill) racket in Los Angeles. Since then Coates has run programs on a homosexual (who freely showed his face on the program and was fired from his job the next day), shoplifters in action, a narcotics addict, a hypnotized woman, singing Brahms's Lullaby, giving...
...Woman Who Was No More is an offbeat French mystery. It has no hero, and its principal character is an intellectual pygmy who is as real as mud and just as unenterprising. His creators, French Authors Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac, have built him into the base of a very French triangle of adulterous villains and victims. They make of it a crisply written, ingenious novel of suspense that is calculated to grip a reader right up to its sardonic last line...
...Golden Apple (music by Jerome Moross; words by John Latouche) is a slightly offbeat musical, given a slightly off-Broadway production (by the new, knowledgeable lower Second Avenue Phoenix Theater-TIME, Dec. 14). All in all, it makes what's on-beat take a beating, and Broadway seem a little backward. The Golden Apple transports the Trojan War set, with considerable irreverence, to the U.S. around 1900-specifically, to a small town near Mt. Olympus, Wash. "Roughly the first half acts out the Iliad: Helen (Kay Ballard), the wife of a local dignitary, runs off with a drummer named...
...leads off with The Devil Is a Protestant, a mildly humorous essay contrasting the austerities of Protestant worship and Roman Catholicism's stress on rich symbolisms. Any Graves fan can see that a talented righthander has been giving his left hand a workout. But there are well-written, offbeat stories by such U.S. writers as Alfred Chester and Elizabeth Hardwick that few magazines would try out on their readers. The princess thought they were worth Drinting, and she was right. Poetry is another of the princess' passions, and Botteghe has it in abundance. It ranges from the pretentious...