Word: versions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...took off after that comedy staple, The $64,000 Question, with a skillfully built parody of a member of the studio audience determinedly prompting Contestant Walker all the way to the summit question. NBC's Sid Caesar showed hopeful flashes of his old form with a rousing, doubletalk version of Pagliacci. Neither Groucho Marx, flourishing his cigar and convivial sneer, nor Jimmy Durante, with his patented songs and spotlighted exit, saw any reason for changing the formulas that have kept them among the leaders for years...
...before a congressional committee. While skulking in Desert D'Or, Eitel dreams about the great film he hopes to make some day-a story about an M.C. of a This-Is-Your-Life-like TV program who decides to become a saint. That idea is a vulgarized Mailer version of a book called Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathanael West-who also wrote a little satirical tale of Hollywood (The Day of the Locust), which in one page shows more style, wit and distinction than could be combed from all The Deer Park...
Among the Ford family the car was known as "Billy's toy." This week young (30) William Clay Ford rolled his toy out for all the world to see. It is the Ford Motor Co.'s Continental Mark II, the 1956 version of the classic Lincoln Continental, which many car buffs consider the best-looking U.S. car ever designed. With his toy, Billy Ford hopes to race past Cadillac and take over as builder of the nation's No. 1 prestige car. Price of the Continental...
Last week Diana was learning lines for her next movie role - the condemned murderess in the film version of Yield to the Night (TIME, Sept. 20, 1954). She feels that English directors are wary of sex ("I don't think they know quite what to do with it"), says that after playing in a death cell, she will be happy to get back into a boudoir: "I might as well cash in on my sex now while I've got it. It can't last forever...
...repertory of skits which included 1) the unrepentant drunk; 2) the "red-nosed, buttermilk-eyed, beetle-browed, peanut-brained, stall-fed old saloonkeeper"; 3) the society woman who spends her time on yachts drinking wine, her "miserable hands red with blood." His masterpiece was probably his theological version of the popular poem, Slide, Kelly, Slide! In this, Sunday impersonated both God (The Great Umpire of the Universe) and poor Kelly himself, who had taken to the booze. It was climaxed by a home-base slide across the splintery pine boards and the dramatic cry: "You're out, Kelly...