Word: showbiz
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...about all of the 200 invited guests, divided-in deference to Danish jollity and Mrs. Krag's profession-between Washington's with-it set and showbiz notables. Even Press Secretary Bill Moyers, an ordained Baptist teacher, fell into the heady rhythm, joining with Lady Bird's Press Secretary Liz Carpenter in some daring aberrations that bystanders called the "L.BJ." and the "Valenti." In the L.B.J., more caricature than choreography, they shuffled around the floor to the rhythm of the hitchhike, punching each other on the shoulder, "reasoning together," dialing imaginary telephones, grasping hands in the presidential flesh...
Talent for Burlesque. Well, that's showbiz. And there were a few other touches of it in last week's annual pro-football draft, as the A.F.L. took 18 hours to divvy up 253 college players, and the older National Football League took 36 hours to draft 305. The Washington Redskins, whose talent for burlesque is fairly obvious (season's record: five wins, six losses), drafted Princeton Place Kicker Charlie Gogolak as their No. 1 choice, giving him a modest $15,000 bonus, and announced afterward that they were insuring Charlie's kicking foot with Lloyd...
...years as a Madison Avenue television producer. He insists that it was a nightmare. Transferred to the Coast, he lost his job producing the Steve Allen Show, and was picking up relief checks when he cut My Son, the Folk Singer; he has been rolling in record royalties and showbiz success jobs ever since. In this garrulously ingratiating book, Sherman appears as a half-crass, half-crushed victim of his own success. "You've got to run very fast to stay where you are," he says, borrowing inspiration from Lewis Carroll. He insists that he hates...
Wednesday, April 28 "MY NAME IS BARBRA" (CBS, 9-10 p.m.)* The first of Streisand's long-awaited specials - and as close to compulsory viewing as TV showbiz ever gets. Highlights include a madly chic fashion number in deserted Bergdorf Goodman, introduced by Fanny Brice's old song Second-Hand Rose. For those who lamented its exclusion from Funny Girl, Barbra belts out My Man. The show has everything -namely, Barbra Streisand...
...trend on the other networks toward the short and snappy, CBS opened three hourlong dramas. By default, Slattery's People is the best, even if it is a kind of provincial Advise and Consent, taking its milieu-as so many TV shows vulturistically do-from an earlier showbiz success. Slattery, played by Richard Crenna, is a state legislator. The story last week did stir up an at least plausible atmosphere of cameral politics. Slattery turned the chamber into a courtroom, fingering an older senator who had deliberately quashed a bill that jeopardized his personal financial interests. The program...