Word: sullivans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Subversive Activities Control Board could have been invented by Gilbert and Sullivan. Like the Queen's Navee, Savoyard-style, it provides its members with impressive-sounding responsibilities, conveys a generous ($26,000) salary, and requires virtually no work at all. The board has heard not a single case in the past 19 months and is not likely to hear one any time soon. With an economy fever gripping Congress, SACB-together with its nearly $300,000 annual budget-would seem to be an ideal target, but the Senate voted overwhelmingly last week not to dissolve the board...
JOHNNY BELINDA (ABC, 9-11 p.m.). Mia Farrow stars as the victimized deaf-mute in a TV production of Johnny Belinda. With Barry Sullivan, Ian Bannen and David Carradine...
...truth, Dietrich doesn't do badly for a 65-year-old grandmother-even though she stands on stage as rigidly expressionless as Ed Sullivan, and the famed husky voice is now both thin and strident. Molded into a $30,000 skintight, flesh-colored gown, however, she can still give the illusion of youth, at least across the footlights. And there is the illusion of sex as she glances at the balcony while chanting a self-mocking version of The Laziest Gal in Town...
...Sullivan is mumbling again about retiring, but no one believes him. Sure as Mass on Sunday, Old Stone Face will be back next season with yet another "really big shew" and everyone will be asking the old question. Perhaps the best answer is given by an old Sullivan regular, Comic Alan King. "Ed does nothing," he says. "But he does it better than anyone else in television...
Wright teased Smith about his intellectual pretensions and his Irishness ("Good morning, Sullivan," he'd say. Or "I see you're still wearing the lace curtains," referring to Tony's then red beard). But Wright also taught Smith the elements of good architecture and the drama of the flow of space. Though Smith never acquired an architecture degree or license, he decided to strike out on his own, designed several houses, which visitors say are "logical, livable, not fancy, but in perfect dimension...