Word: showing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Truth Shows. Even on CBS, the giveaways still had a fighting chance, all tucked into a clause that said schlock was taboo "except where reasonably necessary and natural." Art Linkletter, whose CBS show House Party gives away about $3,000 worth of prizes a week, promptly announced: "If we can't qualify for the 'except' rule, somebody will have to pay for the prizes...
...good result of the television scandals came to light: a growing demand for news and public affairs programs, dubbed "truth shows." NBC announced a weekly public affairs program in prime evening time on topics ranging from alcoholism to the summit. Plans were jelling for TV Critic John Crosby to appear on a new CBS show devoted to books, arts, entertainment. Edward R. Murrow's longtime associate, Fred W. Friendly, told New York Herald Tribune Columnist Marie Torre: "Even the elevator operators here at CBS look at us differently. It's as if we've been...
Mickey Rooney celebrated the first wedding anniversary of his fifth marriage, with a fifth. Instead of rolling on home to sleep it off, he kept another date, showed up for a guest appearance on the Jack Paar Show, now visiting Hollywood. Jack, amiably bringing to mind Mickey's previous four marriages, asked: "What was Ava Gardner really like?" Replied Mickey: "Well, Mr. Paar, may I say this, she is more woman than you will ever know...
Paar kept saying: "I don't know what to do," and Rooney claimed: "I'm not trying to be inobtrusive." Then Rooney began to discuss the previous night's Jack Paar Show, said, "I stayed up until I couldn't sleep any more. May I say this, I'm not a fan. I don't care to watch your show ... It sounds pretty, pretty rotten. I didn't enjoy your show. Jack. And I don't enjoy it too much, except I can't-I can't stay away from...
Next day, hung over in headline. Rooney woke up and got sore, conceded that he'd been "half smashed," but "a man would have to be drunk to appear on that show. Paar is the dregs of television." That afternoon, the two men met, and in the end both apologized. Mickey was supposed to reappear on Paar's show for the sake of good will, but he changed his mind. Paar gleefully announced his replacement: Moppet Star Evelyn (Eloise) Rudie, nine years old and ten inches shorter than Mickey's 5 ft. 3. Full of good taste...