Word: successful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Begin took time out to celebrate Purim, the Jewish holiday that recalls Queen Esther's success in preventing a massacre of Jews' in Persia. Yarmulke on his head, he sat next to a rabbi at the Israeli ambassador's residence and chanted the Hebrew text from an antique scroll...
...never understood, shrugs Carol Burnett, the success of her CBS variety show: "When a good movie is on, I watch it instead." But audiences always loved hard-luck Eunice and the other antic victims Burnett has played for eleven years, 286 programs. Alas, The Carol Burnett Show signs off the air this week. "It's classier to leave before you're asked to go," says Burnett. How does she explain her durability on the tube? Maybe, she says, it is because she has a "tinge of being amateurish" and is just an ordinary "whitebread woman." Audiences might...
Such low-altitude flights of humor and fancy would not qualify Travolta to bus dishes at the Algonquin Round Table. That may be the way he wants it. Part of Travolta's success has been sticking close to what he knows and where he comes from...
DIED. John Cazale, 42, an actor who went straight to the private heart of his every characterization; of cancer; in Manhattan. Cazale found his widest success as Fredo, the slow, shy, forever startled, finally traitorous older brother in Francis Coppola's Godfather films. Other parts-notably as Al Pacino's out-of-tune partner in Dog Day Afternoon-confirmed Cazale's gift for searching out the darkest shadows in a role, then rendering them with shades of wit and unswerving compassion...
...That's My Mama, for example) always seem to be fat? (The famous black matriarchy? Some residual white image of Mammy? Of Aunt Jemima?) Why are black families so often shown to be in screaming turmoil, the air bruised with insults? Why are there not black images of success through education and accomplishment, instead of the old Amos 'n' Andy routines of chicanery or the newer, grittier pimp-flash and hustle...