Word: tonights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...could sum up, another ad popped up in the Times: "Do you dislike the British? Advertiser would be grateful to hear reasons . . ." Then another: "Would like to hear from anyone who likes Americans and why ..." The first of the ads was placed by BBC TV's topical show Tonight, whose spokesman concluded: "Americans have a commendable liking for the British, or you are more reticent than we British, despite a widespread belief to the contrary." The second ad brought 250 friendly replies to the American Weekend, a weekly published in Frankfurt...
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...says one TV producer, "but Jack Paar just creates it." Last week Funnyman Paar, whom critics have long accused of living in winter off the nut he stores up in summer, was awash in the unrehearsed confusion of a sprawling, winter-weight marathon ballyhooed by NBC as the "new" Tonight. Contorting his rubber-band lips around his familiar pipestem and some spottily diverting japes, neat, dumpling-cheeked Jack Paar, 39, glibly scared up a little offbeat fun and flapdoodle-something that the gossipists who succeeded Kovacs and Steve Allen were notably unable to do. Despite first-week jitters, technical flaps...
...previous shows, Paar complained on camera about cue mix-ups, improper offstage signals and placement of cameras. Casting a withering glance at a cameraman whose lenses were not quite up to Paar, he smirked: "I have no makeup on my belt buckle tonight." And when one show became a shambles, he ad-libbed: "Friends, aren't you glad you tuned in; we've been rehearsing for nine minutes." Some of Paar's gentle mockery was a replay of old summer material, e.g., his radio-announcer bloopers ("We have just the furniture to seat your nudes"), and reliable...