Word: petula
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...long ago that blacks were all but invisible on American television, except for those playing servants, like Jack Benny's valet Rochester or Ethel Walers in Beulah. As recently as 1968, a sponsor became apoplectic when Singer Petula Clark touched Harry Belafonte on the arm during a show. Some TV producers are apt to congratulate themselves for displaying so many blacks on TV now; even though mostly bad, the shows come weighed down with all kinds of pretensions to relevance...
...Petula, 1968: the sponsors, Chrysler Motor Corp., try unsuccessfully to quash a shocking sequence in this Petula Clark special. In the sequence, Petula's white hand rests momentarily on the black arm of Guest Star Harry Belafonte...
...What opposite parts of the city appealed to Petula Clark and the Crystals...
...What opposite parts of the city appealed to Petula Clark and the Crystals...
...with 1924, really") and other musicals. Not that either picture was such a box-office smash that Hollywood is pressing her to do another of that genre. Right now, Pet says, she is looking for "a small contemporary film," based perhaps on the Paris revolution of 1968. But Petula, like Julie Andrews, may have trouble in eluding her old image. "At her worst," as one London critic observes, "she emits enough chintzy cheerfulness to upholster a three-piece suite...