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...medium that once saw Bishop Sheen and Arthur Godfrey nominated for the same award ("Outstanding Personality of the Year") had changed not a bit. The academy this time managed to match lightfooted Fred Astaire with Actor Christopher Plummer and 14-year-old Robert Crawford in the race for "Best Single Performance by an Actor." Winner: Hoofer Astaire. (Astaire also won eight other awards, exactly 27 lbs. of Emmys, all for his memorable song-and-dance show last October.) The catalogue of categories seemed endless. On and on it went, until one irritated critic was moved to ask: "Is there...
...model named Marthe who suited him, and bundled her south to the Midi. They finally set up housekeeping in a little villa at Le Cannet overlooking terraced olive and almond groves with the Mediterranean beyond. Sea, fruit, sunshine, the glow of Marthe's flesh, the dark contrasting sheen of their dachshund, flowers, the trees and the soft airs were his joys and his chief materials...
...talkers. Producer David Susskind has no time limit at all on his Sunday-night round table, Open End (TIME, Nov. 24), and it usually rambles on for two hours. Mike Wallace, the waspish interviewer of a few seasons back, conducts half-hour sessions Monday through Friday. Bishop Fulton Sheen holds forth on Tuesdays, New Jersey's Governor on Sunday, Beauty Consultant Richard Willis Monday through Friday; Fannie Hurst's Showcase follows Willis. Henry Morgan snarls at his sponsors Friday evenings. Actor Martin (The Rivalry) Gabel presides at a limping, 1½ hour discussion on Thursdays, will soon...
...taping his talk shows, Cott hopes to feed them to the rest of the stations affiliated with the National Television Association (he has already sold Bishop Sheen to N.T.A.'s Minneapolis station). By next week Stripper Gypsy Rose Lee will be ready with a show: "Singing, dancing and lots of chitchat." And aging (59) Alex King, though his health is precarious, shows no signs of running down. "I'm under constant sedation for high blood pressure," says he. "Gandhi and St. Ignatius Loyola had high blood pressure too, and we all started with sinful lives...
...play is of course also a human drama of a man whose humanity overcomes his professed politics. Under the direction of Alan Rinzler, the production gives vitality to his struggle and an explosive tension to the result. Nowhere in the show is there pause; it has a professional sheen...