Word: rooney
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...industry grows up; Billy grows old. Sans hair, sans teeth, sans wives, sans everything, Billy Bright wanders from park bench to wheelchair replaying his memories to another burned-out star, Cockeye (Mickey Rooney). But Billy is no screen-size Pagliacci. Instead, he proves to be a garrulous embarrassment who keeps popping up on TV commercials and late-night talk shows. Audiences had thought him long dead; now they wish he were...
Then on a crucial third-and-nine from the Harvard 29, Massey threw to Lew Rooney, who juggled the pass before finally securing it 19 yards from the goal line. Matters got worse when Dreischars piled on Rodey to bring the ball even closer to the end zone. Three plays later Primps and the football were safely over the goal line...
Previously Arts And Letters had won--some say stolen--the Belmont Stakes. The odds against him were eight to five. The policemen that day were Majestic Prince, Prime Fool, Distray, Dike, and Rooney's Shield. A medieval lot. The best of this assortment was found wanting by five and a half lengths when the little terror romped across the finish...
GEORGE M! brings George M. Cohan's familiar music to audiences in Brunswick, Me., Aug. 4-16; Westbury, L.T., through Aug. 10; Haddonfield, N.J., Aug. 11-23, with Mickey Rooney; Corning, N.Y., Aug. 26-31; and Los Angeles' Dorothy Chandler Pavilion through Aug. 23, with Joel Grey, who starred on Broadway...
After wartime service with Stars and Stripes, Rooney spent the late 1940s freelance writing for books and magazines but turned to radio and TV when he discovered that he could not make a predictable living in print. He was concocting material for Arthur Godfrey, Garry Moore and others when CBS News President Fred Friendly in 1964 hired him away from show...