Word: paars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jack Paar Presents (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). With Shelley Berman, Oscar Levant, Elaine May and Mike Nichols...
...Louis says "there is no place in the world except Cuba where the Negro can go in the wintertime with absolutely no discrimination." Jack Paar (who paid his own way down) deplores the "untruthful things I've read about what was happening in Cuba. This man Castro is beloved by these people." Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre called the Cuban revolution "the most original I have known" and dismissed the U.S. as a "headless nation...
...that Castro's ad-signing supporters do not seem to see, the Cuban Ambassador to the U.N. in Geneva, Andres Vargas Gomez, quit his post last week charging that the government is "totalitarian and Communistoriented." And Commentator Luis Conte Aguero, whose Cuban TV rating was once up to Paar, fled to U.S. exile because, he said, Castro is now a "prisoner of pro-Communists." Inmates in Havana's filthy Principe Prison rioted twice, setting fire to bedding, and relatives of political prisoners in La Cabana Fortress learned that 30 Castro gunslingers, in a predawn raid, had ordered...
Inviting the Chicago Sun-Times's Irv Kupcinet and the New York Herald Tribune's Hy Gardner to grill him on the air, Paar answered their questions with the air of a do-it-yourself martyr. At one point he shed tears, telling about his ten-year-old daughter's problem of being overweight and how New York World-Telegram and Sun Columnist Harriet Van Home had called attention to it (when Randy Paar made one of her frequent appearances with papa). "Who the hell is that broad," said Paar, "to talk about my daughter...
Almost a Monk. Baring his troubles to an absorbed audience, Paar for three days turned 25 million people into one agglomerate headshrinker. All was not neurotic, however. Much was good, sharp fun, whether he was saying, "This is the Tonight show coming to you in living black and blue," or "I thought of joining a monastery, but I didn't want to live in." A wholesome Paar suggestion: the initials should be dropped from all W. C. Fields films shown...