Word: orson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rattigan's picture of Lawrence, but, wrote Critic T. C. W^orsely: "As one view of the enigma, this will impose itself for a long time." Rhinoceros, Avant-Gardist Eugene lonesco's new play, opened with Sir Laurence Olivier triumphing over the din-and-delirium direction of Orson Welles, lonesco's famed earlier one-acters dealt opaquely with such subjects as a girl with three noses and a man and wife who share their apartment with a growing corpse. This time the playwright almost approaches realism: everyone but the hero merely turns into a rhinoceros...
...with foundation capital, he evolved a principle that his firm applies today with its own funds: "We should take the money and blow it, and we should blow it in a big way." The big way brought some memorable shows to the air (The Life of Samuel Johnson, Orson Welles's King Lear, Comic Satirists Mike Nichols and Elaine May). As for the future, muses Saudek, "maybe a three-hour show, something from 8 to 11. Or maybe 15 minutes of silence...
...Guts." For almost a minute the audience applauded in sympathy. Then suave Announcer Hugh Downs took over and nimbly walked a tightrope between gentlemanly criticism of NBC and gentle disagreement with Paar. Comic Orson Bean came on to denounce the "dehumanized" network that had neither "loyalty" nor "guts." Comic Shelley Berman chimed in with a call for Paar's fans to march on Radio City with pitchforks. Later, Bean struggled to get the thing into better perspective. "Listen," he said, "the network doesn't stink as a network. It stinks as a human relationship outfit...
...packed the debating chamber of the Oxford University Union Society to hear the titans. The resolution before the group: "That this house holds America responsible for spreading vulgarity in Western society." Chief spokesman for the affirmative: Britain's wily Gamesman Stephen Potter. Voice of the negative: rotund, orotund Orson Welles, not a whit shaken by his introduction as "the best film director-actor in the world today.'' Welles readily agreed that stereotyped U.S. culture is not easily defended: "This mass reduction of human dignity makes me sick." But he hastened to absolve the U.S. of disseminating vulgarity...
...Carney Show (NBC, 8-9:30 p.m.). Carney, Celeste Holm, Orson Bean, Jessie Royce Landis, Hiram Sherman and Neva Patterson appear in The Man in the Dog Suit, a Broadway comedy from the 1958-59 season. Color...