Word: peyton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Divorced. By Mia Farrow, 23, wispy ex-star of TV's Peyton Place, who is now making it big in movies (latest: Rosemary's Baby); Frank Sinatra, 52; on grounds of cruelty and incompatibility; after two years of marriage, no children; in Juarez, Mexico...
...Coram, 30, an aggressive and productive reporter who was fired last year by the Atlanta Journal for "unethical practice in obtaining news." His offense had been to deceive a state liquor-control officer; to get a story about nightclub raids, Coram told the officer that his superior, Revenue Commissioner Peyton Hawes, wanted him to tell all. The officer believed Coram and, without checking with Hawes, proceeded to talk...
Unfortunately, few of the roles for Negroes that are being so hurriedly written into next fall's shows will have any individuality or credibility. Executive Producer Paul Monash, who next month will bring the first Negro family onto Peyton Place, says: "All the Negroes I've seen on TV are colorless-absolutely devoid of character, humor or idiom. They are prideless Negroes, castrated men and desexed females. These people are really gilded Rochesters...
...Peyton Place (pop. approx. 10,000), the first black will be a neurosurgeon. In NBC's I Spy, Bob Gulp loves his way round the world, while Co-star Bill Cosby enjoys only an occasional clinch-with a black girl...
...expands the permutations by sleeping with Georgene Thorne, Bea Guerin, Carol Constantine and especially Foxy Whitman. The sexual scenes, and the language that accompanies them, are remarkably explicit, even for this new age of total freedom of expression. Some critics have dismissed Couples as an upper-middle-class Peyton Place. It isn't, but it is getting a sensational reception all the same. Only three weeks after publication, the novel is on the bestseller lists. Knopf ordered a huge first printing of 70,000 copies, and Hollywood's Wolper Productions paid $500,000 for the movie rights...