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Gatto will be the only non-Eli speaking at the dinner. Joining him on the podium will be Charles O'Hearn, representing the undefeated Yale team of 1923: Danny McGill, halfback on the 1956 club, and Mike Pyle, captain of the undefeated 1960 squad who is now captain of the Chicago Bears...
...their room-well-you can't fool them any more." Or at least, it might be added, not in the same way. Director Richard Lester, who got his start on TV, believes that television's abrupt leap from news about Viet Nam to Corner Pyle to toothpaste ads expands people's vision. "TV is best at those sudden shifts of reality. TV, not Last Year at Marienbad, made the audience notice them for the first time...
...Nielsen-ratings race so far this season, the perennial leader, CBS, is clobbering the competition again. Among TV's top 20 programs, CBS claims 14, including Andy Griffith (No. 1), Lucy (2), Gomer Pyle (5), Red Skelton (6) and Ed Sullivan (10). Moreover, CBS claims an average prime-time audience that is 11% bigger than NBC's and a record 25% ahead of third-place ABC. Yet standing as No. 1 can be an honor without profit in TV country. CBS's earnings fell 43% in the third quarter compared with the same period last year...
Mama knew best. By talking natural-like, Nabors, as the star of CBS's Gomer Pyle - U.S.M.C., has grown successively more popular in four seasons, and last week his show finished third, just behind The Lucy Show and Bonanza in the ratings sweepstake. He croons, too, in a big, booming baritone that, on his five bestselling albums, sounds vaguely like, well, a fellow hollering down a drainpipe. On the state-fair cir cuit, he harvests $25,000 for an appearance in which he tells a few jokes ("The tornado was so bad a hen laid the same egg twice...
...Like NBC and ABC, Steinberg's network devotes a lot of time to news, public affairs and respectable, "cultural" programs (Death of a Salesman, the Young People's Concerts series). But CBS's regular programming emphasizes situation comedy and old-wave adventure; the Lucy Show, Comer Pyle and Gunsmoke, all more or less tell "linear" stories. The NBC and ABC standard schedules could be called slightly more McLuhanesque-/ Spy, Man From U.N.C.L.E., Dating Game, N.Y.P.D.; their murky story lines are sub merged in frantic action or personal interaction...