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...Jack's back!" proclaimed ABC. "Television's most exciting personality returns to late night! He's as witty, warm, irreverent, unpredictable and controversial as ever." At least part of the network's ballyhoo was accurate. After eight years Jack Paar had indeed returned as a TV regular, and, yes, he was on late at night...
...viewers who had watched Paar in the late '50s and early '60s, however, the new Jack Paar was an acute attack of déjà vu. A large dollop of nostalgia was in order, of course, but younger viewers must simply have been dumbfounded by Paar's smorgasbord from the past. Almost all the old faces-living and dead-were there. Peggy Cass sat in as Paar's answer to Ed McMahon, introducing Paar and doing commercials. Genevieve, whose funny French accent Paar discovered, was a guest, along with such other oldtime regulars as Jonathan...
...times the clock seemed to have stopped in 1961 or '62, the year Paar quit NBC's Tonight Show. Paar found some old home movies of John Kennedy, to which he added his own maudlin commentary, speaking in an almost eerie way of "the President"-as if J.F.K. still resided at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. In the exhibitionistic '70s, Paar's notion of sly comedy often seemed notably dated too. When Goldie Hawn came on, for instance, he joked about her flat chest. Two nights later he introduced Lee Meredith, a big-bosomed beauty from Neil Simon...
...Part of Paar's trouble was technical snafus. The first night his microphone went dead, and there were miscues for commercials. Beyond that, Paar-quite understandably-was more than usually nervous. "Look at me," he said. "I look confident and serene. Would you believe that I put both feet through the same hole in my Jockey shorts...
MONDAY: Jack Paar Tonite, No kidding. The mercurial late-night talk host returns to the post-prime hours, after a ten-year absence, on a one-week-a-month basis. This week's guests include actress Goldie Hawn. Once Levant's widow June, country music's Loretta Lynn, author David Halberstan '55, and candid cameraman Allen Funt. CH. 5. 11:30 p.m. Color...