Word: songful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With a celebrated conscience that writhed with guilt beside the swimming pool, Hollywood writers sang a song-of social significance. The loner of the '30s film-Gary Cooper, Gary Grant, Jimmy Stewart-always triumphed against Big Money, amid settings of dreamlike luxury, cluttered with butlers, white pianos and canopied beds. Like animated editorial cartoons, their opposition was always a vested-and usually watch-chained-interest on the order of Edward Arnold. The heroine-Barbara Stanwyck or Jean Arthur-spoke with a catch in her throat that accented her vulnerability. But she had a whim of iron, and when...
Divorced. Nancy Kwan, 29, won-ton-sized (34-21-34) Eurasian beauty who starred in Hollywood's The World of Suzie Wong and Flower Drum Song; and Austrian Hotel Owner Peter Pock, 28; after six years of marriage, one child; in Innsbruck...
...does not seem to be performing so much as bearing witness to a reality so simple and compelling that she could not possibly fake it. In her selection of songs, whether written by others or by herself, she unfailingly opts for those that frame her own view of life. "If a song's about something I've experienced or that could've happened to me, it's good," she says. "But if it's alien to me, I couldn't lend anything to it. Because that's what soul is about?just living and having to get along...
...SUMMER BROTHERS SMOTHERS SHOW (CBS, 9-10 p.m.). Doleful Comedian Pat Paulsen joins Singer Glen Campbell in a song-and-comedy hour in which the Brothers themselves appear as guests along with Nancy Sinatra and Joey Bishop...
...likely to excuse himself from a business conference, ostensibly to go to the men's room, and not be seen again for four days. Raised in Brooklyn, he had "about 40" jobs (bouncer, ice-cream vendor, hairdresser) before launching his record career in 1964 with a hit song that he wrote in twelve minutes (Walking in the Sand). Now he produces the Vanilla Fudge, the New York Rock & Roll Ensemble and Janis Ian (Society's Child), is training three protégés at his own commune-style firm on Long Island. An autocrat in the studio...