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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...twit his own background-the comedic formula he never abandoned-earned him star status in the boys' room, where he would try out his routines. His ethnic-based act worked on New York's club circuit too, which led to his first national appearance on the Jack Paar show. Then, in December 1973, his stand-up routine on the Tonight Show thrust him into the big leagues: he had caught the eye of James Komack, who was casting his generation-and ethnic-gap sitcom. With Chico a winner, Prinze had reached...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SUICIDES: Freddie Prinze: Too Much, Too Soon | 2/7/1977 | See Source »

...early example of the medium's effect on book sales was provided during the late 1950s by Alexander King. An erstwhile adman and former drug addict, he was the author of a scurrilously amusing book of reminiscences titled Mine Enemy Grows Older. Each time King appeared on Jack Paar's show, the sales figures of his book soared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Flogging It | 4/5/1976 | See Source »

...wife. Bailey agreed. To get permission for the test, Bailey mounted what became the first of his now familiar pretrial publicity campaigns. Appearing on a TV talk show, he used a lie detector to uncover the most burning secret of the day: that Johnny Carson would be Jack Paar's replacement on nighttime TV. The tactic did more for his ego than his client. The ploy hardened official resistance, and a state court declined to order the polygraph...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Piloting Patty's Defense | 2/16/1976 | See Source »

...viewers as the wisecracking bumpkin, Charley Weaver; of a heart attack; in Burbank, Calif. Arquette began carving the character of Charley during the heyday of radio, when he played the "Old-timer" on the Fibber McGee and Molly show. In 1957, Charley became a regular on the Jack Paar show, where he shared with the world letters written to him by his mother from mythical Mount Idy, Ohio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 7, 1974 | 10/7/1974 | See Source »

...amazed at Jack Paar's vindictive attitude [TIME FORUM, Sept. 16] toward Dick Cavett, merely because your reviewer liked the book. Shame on him for his petty words. I nominate him for "Poorest Sport in Television...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Sep. 30, 1974 | 9/30/1974 | See Source »

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