Word: old
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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INTERVIEWER: I hope you haven't been bored having to go through all these interviews for your birthday, having to answer the same old questions about yourself...
...American TV might well include the tape of the Dec. 17 Tonight show. Within that dispiriting 90-minute reel were a cough-medicine commercial, Phyllis Diller's laugh, and the on-the-air wedding of Tiny Tim, the fortyish boy soprano, to his 17-year-old Miss Vicki Budinger...
Fred Allen once recalled a man whose hobby was collecting old echoes. Composer Jerry Herman easily fits that description; his score for Hello, Dolly! seems to contain the strains of nothing but borrowed melodies. Indeed, even his title song was publicly conceded to be derived from another tune by another...
...feed and grain store and decides to snare him for her own. She does. Curtain. In between their coy runaround, tiny complications arise. None of them matter, but several are the premises for blithe and sumptuous dance numbers. The most kinetic, Dancing, is happily reminiscent of the old MGM musical It's Always Fair Weather, starring a couple of guys named Gene Kelly and Michael Kidd...
...dissenters criticized the majority for basing their ruling on the Civil Rights Act of 1866, since Congress had passed newer open-housing legislation in 1968. Arguing that interpreting the old statute was thus of little importance to the public, the minority said that the court should not have heard the case...