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...tripped over her long chiffon scarf. With limp, well-scrubbed adoration, Pat said: "You sure deserve the reputation you have," to which worldly-wise Bea replied: "Thanks-I think." Before she got hopelessly boxed in a square dance, Comedienne Lillie, 59, and Singer Boone, 23, did a spritely spoof of country music called I Got Tears in My Ears from Lying on my Back in my Bed While I Cry Over You. But when Pat offered her a cup of coffee, Bea let out the awful truth about the rest of her host's show: "No thank you. Might...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Review | 11/11/1957 | See Source »

Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? Frank Tashlin's spoof of Manhattan's television-advertising industry; with Tony Randall as Rock, Jayne Mansfield as herself (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Nov. 4, 1957 | 11/4/1957 | See Source »

...lullaby is one of a dozen Songs of Couch and Consultation (Commentary Records) beguilingly warbled over her own guitar playing by blonde Nightclub Singer Katie Lee. With lyrics by Bud Freeman, a sometime movie press-agent and independent recordmaker, the disk is an eminently amusing spoof of the nation's taste in song and psychoanalysis. As the album opens, Katie is heard applying to a head-shrinker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Stay as Sick as You Are | 10/28/1957 | See Source »

Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? Frank Tashlin's spoof of Manhattan's television-advertising industry; with Tony Randall as Rock, Jayne Mansfield as herself (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Oct. 28, 1957 | 10/28/1957 | See Source »

Burbling along in his low-decibel way, Professor Parkinson slyly camouflages the fact that there is as much truth as spoof in his pseudo-scientifically stated findings. Finally, he is as difficult to laugh off as he is easy to laugh with. Author Parkinson promises to make further researches into executive manners. One project: he would like to trace the significance of "the illegibility of signatures, the attempt being made to fix the point in a successful executive career at which the handwriting becomes meaningless even to the executive himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Org's Ogre | 10/28/1957 | See Source »

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