Word: shows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...church is removing Garner Ted, 48, from TV. More important, he has also been ousted from the church's board and from his job as the operating head both of the church and of church-owned Ambassador College in Pasadena, Calif. Last week Garner Ted lost his radio show too. The doer of these deeds? Garner Ted's father, Herbert W. Armstrong, the church's autocratic "Apostle," who has once more seized control and, at age 85, plans to go on TV himself in July...
...beatitude of fame, certain privileges and immunities exist. The higher orders may, for example, appear through a curtain, unannounced, in the middle of a Johnny Carson show, exciting little whoops of recognition and incredulity in the audience. (Bob Hope may always do that; Don Rickles can get away with it.) The middle orders make the Dean Martin roast, regularly inhabit the "People" pages of magazines and newspapers. All enjoy, at least for a time, immunity from the agent's call proposing that they do an American Express commercial: "Remember me? I used...
America's grandest, gaudiest floor show hits the Sierra Nevada
...mostly sold off or grinding out TV fluff. MGM is best known today for its hotels and casinos, lavish Disneylands for grownups with high-roller dreams. The MGM Grand Hotels make dollar-and-cents sense; in the past 4½ years the Las Vegas MGM hotel's floor show has earned nearly $60 million. Some of old Hollywood remains in the new playgrounds. The MGM Grand Hotel and casino newly opened in Reno is colossal: it cost more than $138 million and has the world's largest casino (100,000 sq. ft. of gaming tables plus...
...match the surroundings, Producer Donn Arden has outfitted the world's largest stage with a two-hour floor show to rival the biggest movies in MGM history. He has created similar shows on four continents during his 30-year career as king of showgirl spectaculars. Says Arden: "I find the prettiest girls, put them in the finest feathers and then sink them on the Titanic or burn them up in the Hindenburg. Nobody can do girls and gimmicks like me." The Reno production, his most lavish ever, cost $5 million, but the result is a show that would have...