Word: sinatras
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Broadway hits, including the smash successes Pajama Game, The Member of the Wedding, South Pacific and Don Juan in Hell. Movies? Sullivan's show pioneered in showing pre-release snatches of films (as in this week's Guys & Dolls, starring Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons and Frank Sinatra, with music by Frank Loesser). Comedians? Ed has ransacked the U.S. and Europe for funnymen; Victor Borge, Jackie Gleason, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis all made their TV debuts on the Sullivan program. Spectaculars? Ed is convinced that the basic idea came from such Toast of the Town biographies as those...
...beaten the NBC opposition 66 times and lost nine decisions. Seven of those nine defeats were administered by Martin & Lewis. "But we've handled big names before," says Ed confidently. "They threw Jimmy Durante at us first and when I overhauled him, they threw in Frank Sinatra and Milton Berle. We've always had tough competition...
...Sullivan Show (Sun. 8 p.m., CBS) Guests. Marlon Brando. Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra...
What an exquisite balance you achieved in presenting the life of Frank Sinatra one week, and that of Herman Wouk the next. I particularly enjoyed the juxtaposition of Sinatra's "Polo Grounds for a closet," and Wouk's "Possessions are disastrous," or again, Sinatra's "I don't need anybody in the world. I did it all myself," and Wouk, whose day "does not begin at his desk, but in prayer...
Sylvester also delights in taking cracks at TV, Madison Avenue admen (one of them worried so much that his hair turned charcoal grey), and the big names of show business whose egos outgrow their talents (favorite targets: Arthur Godfrey, Eddie Fisher, Frank Sinatra). "Wouldn't it be wonderful," observed Sylvester one bright morning, "if Arthur Godfrey hired Mario Lanza and Lanza quit before Arthur could fire...