Word: songful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Please place on record my opinion about this action as the opinion of an honest son of his country and of the poet who once wrote the song, 'Do the Russians Want...
...failing of Promises, Promises is most evident, perhaps, when Miss O'Hara is called on to attempt suicide, one of the central events of the story. After singing a perfectly splendid song called "Whoever You Are," she reaches for the sleeping pills, a spot concentrates on them, and the scene fades out. But neither her dialogue nor her performance has justified this action: her relationship with Sheldrake, their break-up, and her despair are simply not convincing. And if the most serious action--the pivotal action--of the plot doesn't work, then the plot as a whole...
Howls again. "They believe in free speech," murmured Wallace. "These are the free speech folks." He talked softly and whimsically, like a guitar-strummer sometimes speaks in the middle of a folk song...
...numbers. Old Pro George Burns helped tie together the opening-night proceedings with cigar-chomping asides and monologues. Another guest, Tony Randall, contributed a mix of roguish, debonair and fumbling antics. Other celebrities will appear in future weeks to goad the ingratiating team of Morse and Peaker along their song-and-dance journey through courtship and marriage. That's Life should live, if not happily ever after, at least for the TV season...
Keefe Brasselle does impersonations. He has impersonated a song-and-dance man in the movies (The Eddie Cantor Story), a variety-show M.C. on television (briefly), and a TV producer (also briefly). This last imitation precipitated a ruckus that began at CBS four years ago. Brasselle had sold three programs, sight unseen, to his pal, CBS-TV President James (''The Smiling Cobra") Aubrey. The FCC and Aubrey's CBS bosses thought that this was a little strange, especially since the shows were dogs (The Reporter, The Baileys of Balboa, The Car a Williams Show). In addition...