Word: rerun
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Name a cause and Hollywood will give you a benefit. Name the right benefit and you'll wind up with not only Zsa Zsa Gabor, 63, but before you can say "rerun," you better also make room for Danny, Danny Thomas, 70. The benefit was for the Wildlife Waystation, a preserve for homeless critters near Los Angeles. Zsa Zsa decided to throw a theme soirée, and Danny came as a big-game hunter (a curious choice for a function that is raising money to keep animals alive). Also on hand in more tasteful, authentic trappings were...
Past shocks! The TV rerun becomes social history...
Such nostalgic-and telling-reminders of the way we once were are increasingly available to the TV viewer. Nearly half the homes in the U.S. can tune in to a Lucy rerun. Such venerable series as Hogan 's Heroes and the Andy Griffith Show have been selling in syndication for more money than ever. "In the past ten years, there has been a significant increase in the number of independent stations," says Dennis Gillespie, a senior vice president of Viacom International, the world's major supplier of syndicated shows. "And those stations are buying more and more syndicated...
...hopes that this version of Hair might be done with real power, raising ethical questions in a strikingly new way for a sometimes stodgy forum. But the very real issues that arise are quickly forgotten for the sake of a story line that evokes nothing so much as a rerun of the 1960s Monkees T.V. show...
There was a sense of déjà vu at the Oakland Hills Country Club outside Detroit. Arnold Palmer and Billy Casper, tied after four rounds, needed an 18-hole playoff to determine the victor. No, it was not a rerun of the 1966 U.S. Open in San Francisco when Palmer blew a seven-stroke lead, then lost in a playoff to Casper. This was golf's newest big championship, the U.S. Senior Open, for competitors over 50. Palmer, 51, produced one of his famous charges in the playoff, coming from behind to beat Casper and Bob Stone...