Word: poston
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tone introduces scenes from Broadway shows- Waiting for Lefty, Inside U.S.A., South Pacific, Call Me Mister, Watch on the Rhine, There Shall Be No Night, West Side Story, Raisin in the Sun-to demonstrate "the American theater's continuing fight against bigotry." With Phyllis Newman, Eli Wallach, Tom Poston, William Shatner, Bill Tabbert...
Ford Startime (NBC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). For a musical salute to Ethel Merman's career, Merman on Broadway collected Tab Hunter, Fess Parker and Tom Poston. Color...
...despite a whole arsenal of props and an agreeable assemblage of players, topped by TV's Tom Poston, Golden Fleecing is into the second act before it explodes into laughter. Then it expires in the third. Playwright Semple cannot solve the author's great problem of getting his people into trouble while staying out of it himself. He is too laborious tying his yarn in knots, too predictable untying it. Amid Director Abe Burrows' sharp whipcracking, there is too much forced wisecracking; amid a great many antics, there is never quite enough...
Safety Break. In Ventura, Calif., Rodney Poston won $5 from the Kiwanis Club for "exemplary safe driving," used it to pay a traffic fine...
...trial for shooting his wife in the backside; his defense is that before the revolver went off, as he was cleaning it, he had drunk two bottles of whisky. After a prosecution doctor testifies that no one could drink that much without passing out, the defense enlists Actor Poston to prove the contrary. And, particularly at the second-bottle stage, Actor Poston shows an amusing gift for exuberant pantomime, as does Director Abbott for moderate pandemonium. But no play can keep from falling on its face just by having the hero continue to do so, and even at its best...