Word: sam
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vast Los Angeles metropolitan area, the TV screen is an electronic Valhalla in which Ben Cartwright grapples with the Smothers brothers, Walt Disney with Perry Mason. For millions of viewers, the keenest new prime-time contender is a show-biz nonentity. Nevertheless, as star of the Sam Yorty Show, the mayor of Los Angeles, at 5 ft. 9 in., is a jolly big giant...
Ninety minutes long, in color and with a theme song groaned by Bing Crosby, Yorty's show on its first two exposures proved at least that a quirkily provocative off-screen performer can upstage Donald Duck on the air. Sam bantered with Art Linkletter ("I don't want to embarrass you, Art, but what are you running for?" "I'm running for home in a few minutes"); consoled Neighbor Tippi Hedren on the horrendous reviews of her new movie, A Countess from Hong Kong; helped Pierre Salinger, a sometime political foe, plug both his employer (Continental Airlines...
Show-biz-wise, indeedy. Yorty's first show topped Perry Mason, It's About Time and Truth or Consequences. The critics were not altogether kind. Along with a nix from Variety, Sam's show prompted a double-edged encomium from Los Angeles Times TV Critic Hal Humphrey. "Would it be fair to say," asked Humphrey, "that Yorty makes as good a TV host as he does a mayor? Probably...
...peak," says Martin Geisler, owner of Manhattan's Per PROTEST BUTTON sonality Posters. Right now the Monkees are the most popular of his 70 posters; other favorites, each for $1, include Chairman Mao, Dracula, the Hell's Angels, Shirley Temple, Humphrey Bogart, Allen Ginsberg in his Uncle Sam suit, and Peter Fonda on a motorcycle. Also prized: the offbeat "You Don't Have to Be Jewish to Love Levy's" subway poster ads for rye bread...
Judge Paschen is taking great pains to avoid repetition of the outcome of the 1954 trial of Cleveland's Dr. Sam Sheppard, who was found guilty of killing his wife, only to have the verdict upset by the U.S. Supreme Court because of prejudicial press coverage. Yet it is not the judge, but the defense and prosecuting attorneys who are taking all the time. Each is questioning prospective jurors carefully, and is being cut off by Paschen only if he becomes unusually long-winded...