Word: sinatras
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week Susskind's hostmanship finally blew the cork, deluged the show in fizz and fuzz. The occasion was the seasonal opener of Open End, and the evening's topic was a weighty one: Frank Sinatra's Clan. As panelists, Susskind invited some celebrated tosspots, including Jackie Gleason, Joe E. Lewis, Toots Shor and Actress Lenore Lemmon. When the program opened, it was apparent that most everyone was well fortified, and as it progressed, everybody helped himself to a liquid refreshment camouflaged in a teapot. Susskind, with some help from sharp-tongued Critic Marya Mannes, tried manfully...
...soon clear that no one was really interested in Sinatra et al. Comedian Ernie Kovacs and Lenore Lemmon began talking Hungarian. "I think this program is all outer space," sloshed Joe E. Lewis at one point. Queried Host David: "What's outer space?" Reply: "Outer space is when you're 20 feet away from the bar." Trouble was, hardly anyone was. Gleason rose up, announced, "I'm going to retire to my home in Peekskill," then sat down again. Said Shor: "I'll take a little tea here." "Somebody throw another tea ball in that poor...
With customary sensitivity to the major trends in U.S. society, TV Impresario David Susskind came up with a colossal program idea: Why not do one of his Open End discussion shows on Hollywood's much-publicized Clan and invite Frank ("The Leader") Sinatra to participate? Back from Frankie came a telegram stating his price: $250,000 an hour. Piqued, David fired off an answering wire: "Presume stipulated fee is for your traditional program of intramural ring-a-ding-dinging with additional fillip of musical lyrics mounted on TelePrompTer. Please advise price for spontaneous discussion." But Sinatra emerged the victor...
...Pablo de Sarasate and a collection of compositions by one of his longtime admirers-Fritz Kreisler. who heard Ricci play as a child. Included were Sarasate's Malagueña and Zapateado, Kreisler's Liebesleid and Liebesfreud and La Gitana. Standing with a kind of Frank Sinatra slouch before the double microphones, tiny (5 ft. 4 in.) Violinist Ricci grasped his Guarnerius del Gesù fiddle in his short, square hands and produced a tone that was remarkable both for its control and its shading. He was at his best in the Sarasate Habañera and Jota...
Hefner's new baby is a smorgasbord of the performing arts, with just enough glimpses of feminine breast and thigh to entice readers whose theatrical tastes run no higher. It mostly plows tired ground: feature articles on Frank Sinatra, Jackie Gleason and Marlon Brando, plus reviews and listings of coming events that, together with the ads, occupy most of the first 53 pages. SBI's potential readership, says Associate Publisher A. C. Spectorsky (who holds the same title on Playboy), lies somewhere between magazines that cater to movie addicts and those that appeal to longhaired readers...