Word: often
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...performance (male) in a series by a comedian, singer, host, dancer, master of ceremonies, announcer, narrator, panelist or any person who essentially plays himself." Of the westerns, current giants of the ratings, only top-rated Gunsmoke copped an Emmy ("the best dramatic series with continuing characters"). Other winners, as often attesting popularity or superior politicking as saluting true merit...
...getting his second Emmy of the evening at the award ceremonies last week (see above), Jack Benny asked a prophetically rhetorical question: "Wouldn't it be funny if my next show was lousy?" Shower succeeded in reducing its stars (Janis Paige, John Raitt, Betty Grable) to micrometeor magnitude, often seemed an accidental parody of an early '30s movie musical, lacking only the traditional aerial views of chorus girls sprawling in living floral patterns. Jokes and Chrysler commercials sometimes had interchangeable parts. Cooed Barbara Nichols, playing a scrub girl in a carwash emporium: "Gee, isn't he [Raitt...
...peek into the frustration of a onetime lumberjack hooked by big-city humdrum, was acted by Ben Gazzara with such manneristic Method (except during one tender love scene played with Lee Grant as his wife) that the poverty-stricken dreamer often appeared a little paranoid. In The Last of My Solid Gold Watches, Actor Thomas Chalmers was ruggedly convincing as an oldtimer shoe salesman who hides his fear of death and lack of security behind passionate tirades against the new world's lack of manners and tradition, almost managed to mask the fact that the play was little more...
...that could be heard for blocks. Back at his job on the force, he was suspended three times for drinking, improper conduct, breach of duty. "I was nothing but a bum in a policeman's uniform," he says. "I showed no mercy, no tolerance. My arrest tactics were often disgraceful brawls. Most of the time I was so sick from drinking that I couldn't make it to roll call...
...high standard of living. But just as services-TV repairing, dry cleaning, and such-have got more expensive, a lot of them got steadily worse. Goods, too, have declined in quality. Even such a basic item as the modern house is not what it should be; it's often thrown together like a woodshed...