Word: welk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Wooden is a graying, sober-sided eminence who imparts what one player calls the "respect factor." Who, after all, could doubt a man who is a friend of Lawrence Welk, who admires the writings of Zane Grey and St. Francis of Assisi? Wooden is also a deacon in the First Christian Church of Santa Monica. He reads the Bible daily. He neither smokes nor drinks and will not tolerate profanity. On occasion, he will partake of a "Pat Boone Special" (ginger ale with a dash of grape juice). His strongest expletive is "Goodness gracious sakes alive!" And after a tough...
...entertainment shows that have filled the time have been produced on low budgets, $10,000 to $60,000 per half-hour, v. $100,000 for an average network show of the same length. Cheap game shows have proliferated, and shows that the networks once discarded such as The Lawrence Welk Show and Hee Haw, have been resuscitated...
...dialogue is drab. "You know something, Julie, I've missed you," says Robert Goulet, her co-star in Camelot. It is hard to believe that this is the same sweet-and-sour Andrews of The Americanization of Emily, her best picture-when all you see is Lawrence Welk with nicer legs...
...especially flattered by the turnout of some 400 stage, screen and television celebrities for a party he and the First Lady gave at their San Clemente home. They included such oldtime stars as John Wayne, Jack Benny, George Jessel, James Stewart, Joan Blondell, Ray Bolger, Jimmy Durante and Lawrence Welk, as well as some Democratic turncoats: Frank Sinatra, Jim Brown, Charlton Heston and George Hamilton. (Remember George and Lynda Bird?) The President was in high spirits, chatting amiably and expressing his gratitude "for what you, the people of Hollywood, have done for America and have done for the world...
...fashionably longer hair, Humphrey still suffers from being as out of style as the crew cut, the rumble seat or high-button shoes in a state where voters like their politicians to be with it. As one ranking Democrat in California cracked: "Hubert Humphrey is to politics what Lawrence Welk is to music...