Word: paars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Charlotte, N.C., Music Theater: Bye Bye, Birdie with Selma Diamond, a gag writer for Perry Como, widely known for the flavor of pastrami on wry she used to provide as a guest on the Paar show...
...comeback, and some of television's great names are returning after doleful absences. Jackie Gleason will revive The Honeymooners (with a new supporting cast) as part of his resurrected Jackie Gleason Show. Both Sid Caesar and Lucille Ball are returning in shows named after them, and Jack Paar's abdication ends with the new weekly Jack Paar Show...
...major culprits: the Washington Post, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, TIME and Newsweek. On television, Rogers named NBC's Huntley and Brinkley, CBS's Charles Collingwood, ABC Commentator Howard K. Smith and even silenced Jack Paar as antagonists of free enterprise. Advertising dollars spent on such people and publications, he warned, do more harm than if business simply "paid all these millions of dollars right into the Communist Party...
Wind it up and it wrecks two marriages. What is it? The Elizabeth Taylor doll. You wind up the Jack Paar doll and it cries. Wind up the Jack Benny doll and it won't give back the key. Wind up the Marilyn Monroe doll and if it's on time it's broken...
...bravely insists that the show's ratings have climbed since Paar left; such as it is, Tonight may now be seen over 184 stations, three more than Paar's last audience. But for most, the parade of tryouts was only a sad and dull reminder of the old days, when Paar filled their nights with cruel charm...