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...hear much talk on the network talk shows these days-not much real conversation to broaden the mind or upset the rigid format. In TV's robust youth it was different, in large part because of JACK PAAR, who died last week in Greenwich, Conn...
...sports shoulder-length gray hair and a walrus mustache, the exhibit attempts to distinguish art that stands the test of time from socialist kitsch. That meant excluding some well-known work from the period, such as Walter Womacka's idyllic couple in Junges Paar am Strand (Young Couple at the Beach), a Norman Rockwell-like painting that could once be found in many East German homes. Some critics complain that such exclusions constitute a cleansing of East German art, and play down the intellectual constraints under which artists had to work. But März says he simply dismissed paintings...
Gelbart started early in show biz when his father, barber to the stars, persuaded client Danny Thomas to give Larry, then 16, a shot writing comedy. Gelbart, who has called writing "the perfect medium for shy extroverts," was soon a scribe for Jack Paar, Red Buttons and Bob Hope. As a writer on the legendary Caesar's Hour, Gelbart "popped jokes like popcorn," recalls colleague Carl Reiner. "Once Sid [Caesar] got a call from Bob Hope, offering an oil well to get Larry back...
...Jack Paar Show," 1960: Paar walks off the show because NBC has censored some terrible words he uttered on the air. The words were not really words but initials: W.C., for water closet, the British equivalent of toilet...
...movie themes ("Picnic," "Bell, Book and Candle"); and he started a Sunday-night variety hour, "The Steve Allen Show." By then he was so busy he let Ernie Kovacs host "The Tonight Show" on Mondays and Tuesdays. Kovacs ascended to his own level of TV-comedy immortality, and Jack Paar took over "Tonight" in 1957. Then Johnny Carson and Jay Leno - 46 years of the longest-running entertainment show on network...