Word: susskind
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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prominent representatives of and performing arts--including conductor Leopold Stokowski and television producer David Susskind have agreed to discuss the case for support of the arts at the Quincy- Arts Festival on April...
...first panel, moderated by Susskind on Thursday, April 26, will discuss whether the aid to the arts is needed and justifiable. On Friday, Daniel assistant curator of the Guggenheim Museum in New York City, will a paper to a panel debating the f art that government should...
...bases his humor on the creation of comic characters-most of them acted by himself. And as the late James Thurber liked to remark, such comedy may be amusing, but it is also serious commentary on human life. "Gleason has gorgeous creative juices," says Requiem's Producer David Susskind with purple accuracy. "He is a thundering talent-the kind of raw, brilliant talent that has gone out of style, with as much instinct in drama as in comedy...
...enough to make a penguin take to the bottle; but Gleason, dieting, munched his Ry-Krisp without benefit of sauce. Although he can, as Susskind says, "put away more Scotch per square hour than any man alive," he rarely drinks on the job. The Gleason legend has much to float on, but he proudly insists that he has never missed a show because of drinking. "I'm a heavy drinker when I drink," Gleason generalizes, "because I can put away a bundle of booze before the lights go out. I like it. Some people like to climb mountains...
Packaged by David Susskind's Talent Associates-Paramount, the show is run by Producer Robert Costello, who enjoys remarkable freedom to do what he pleases. The Armstrong Cork Co. keeps its distance, and the results show it. "We have no strictly taboo subjects," says Costello, "but I suppose if we wanted to do a show where a child eats a piece of cork flooring and dies, well...