Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Digging. In Erie, Pa., a funeral procession consisting of a hearse, a black limousine and two mobile units filed somberly from radio station WLEU to the river, dumped in 7,000 rock 'n' roll records...
...recreation fund and for the purchase of eyeglasses for needy inmates. Players draw "brass" (scrip) from their personal accounts (maximum $20 a week), never handle real cash, since an accumulation of "street money" might give a prisoner big ideas about escaping. Gambling hours in the small, dim, rock-walled "casino" are carefully regulated...
...programs to sponsor, Revlon this year is betting on 15 biweekly CBS variety shows, each to be laboriously dressed up to look like a party thrown by show folk for one another. Host of last week's opening brawl (in a make-believe Waldorf duplex) was Movie Idol Rock Hudson, who a few years ago inspired the title for a comedy called Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? Last week millions of televiewers found out the answer: no, because there is nothing to spoil. His amiable, muscular and vacant manner scarcely intruded on some predictably competent guests-Lisa Kirk (topnotch...
Pillow Talk (Arwin; Universal-International) offers more talk than pillows. And just in case the talk should happen to lag, as it often does, the picture also offers something beyond discussion and almost beyond belief: a romantic comedy team composed of Rock Hudson and Doris Day, the box-office champions of the 1958-59 season. The idea was obviously to present a sort of world series of sex, but what happened to the sex? When these two magnificent objects go into a clinch, aglow from the sun lamp and agleam with hair lacquer, they look less like creatures of flesh...
...Party by Revlon (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). Rock Hudson is host. The guests are Tallu, Sammy Davis Jr., Mort Sahl, Esther Williams, Lisa Kirk. And the theory is that the whole crew will kick in with spontaneous entertainment...