Word: redd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...SULLIVAN, 71, has been turning out a warm, newsy column, "Little Old New York," for the Daily News since 1932. Over the years, he has shifted from a loose, rambling monologue to a terser, more telegraphic style ("Redd Foxx getting Vegas divorce . . . Bobby Hackett very ill . . ."). He kept the column going during the 23 years he emceed his television variety show, but has cut back from five pieces a week to two. Unlike some other columnists, Sullivan does not use a ghostwriter for his items, many of which he obtains from a network of famous friends. "I call people like...
Jazz Week. Rarely seen films of the great jazz performers of the '40s and '50s, at the Park Square Moviehouse. Thursday: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Gil Evans, and others. Friday: The Connection, about the drug experience, features Jackie McLean and Freddy Redd. Call 722-4100 ext. 497 for times and info...
...junk business in Los Angeles. But it is no Family in blackface. Its humor plays with prejudices rather than on them. "Were they colored?" the police asked the elder Sanford about a gang of thieves in an early episode. "Yeah," he replied. "White." The old man, played by Redd Foxx, has none of Archie's anger. He is simply an engaging con artist who will resort to any ruse to keep his son from quitting the business and leaving home...
Died. Lewis ("Redd") Evans, 60, songwriter and music publisher who collaborated on such hits of the 1940s as There! I've Said It Again, No Moon at All. and that World War II harbinger of Women's Lib, Rosie the Riveter; in New Rochelle...
...night at the club-90 minutes' work for grand-theft money," he says. "But television is the now medium. Suddenly I've got a lot of future." But the years of waiting have left him rather bitter. "'Sanford made it in twelve weeks," he says. "Yet Redd Foxx has been around for 33 years. What took them so long...