Word: vaudevillian
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...afforded a great opportunity for original programming in the unsponsored time zones--allowing the off-beat a coast-to-coast audience. It is then that the network news departments were established (curtailing previous agreements with press services), along with the "distinguished" tradition of radio poetry readings, kitchen sink dramas, vaudevillian "special events," and Meet-the-Press-type panel shows...
This section of the book is good, gossipy reading. There are vivid cameos of Mack Sennett trying to spy on his writers; of Harry Langdon, the baby-faced vaudevillian, suddenly famous and going to pieces; and of Harry Cohn, the libidinous vulgarian who ran Columbia Pictures. It is the latter part of the book, when Capra returns to Hollywood from Army Signal Corps duty during World War II, that makes The Name Above the Title such a poignant reminiscence...
...Hutchinson, the drifter who was murdered alongside Linda Fitzptarick, comes on like a Ken Kesey hero, a con artist who ultimately can't scramble back into the society that has maimed him. Jerry Rubin appears in a whole series of guises-from young Jimmy Olsen-type reporter to revolutionary vaudevillian. And, in what is possibly the best piece of the lot, Lukas follows young Watts poet Johnny Scott into streets where "dogs: strays and wanderers, wild scruffy hounds with yellow fangs and frothy lips, lop[e] in packs through the streets, yelping at cars, overturning trashcans, chasing little black boys...
...vaudevillian's line used to be, "From Omaha? Nice place to be from." On the evidence of the 1970 census, the most prominent places to be from during the '60s were North Dakota, which lost 2.3% of its population, South Dakota, which lost 2.1% and West Virginia, which lost 6.2%. A favorite place to go was still California, the last continental stop in the American migration, which became the nation's most populous state, with 19,953,134 residents. In the final 1970 census figures, announced last week, California surpassed New York by 1.7 million, thus gaining...
...Keaton had a coat of arms, that phrase would have been his motto. His father, Vaudevillian Joe Keaton, took Buster into the family act in 1898 at the age of three as "the human mop." Pop literally swept the floor with him. The kid became a great stone pebble, and made hazard a part of his persona...