TV Radio Mirror (Jan - Jun 1963)

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who recently made it big in a Broadway show, putting himself on an equal footing, professionally, with his lovely wife Shirley Jones. Bob disagrees with Jack, who said that, when they're apart, it's all right for Shirley to have a date with David Niven and for him to have a date with some gal. "We don't think that way," Bob said, and added, "This sort of talk scares my parents and family. They keep saying, 'You know, those show folk are very wild.' " By the time this has gotten into print, you'll probably have seen the "Elizabeth Taylor in London" TV showr (For the full story, see page 28), but as I write this, it's in the future. And around CBS-TV headquarters, the word is not good. A few who have seen excerpts of the finished job say that it's "embarrassing." The sponsor who made the deal is happy, but the network people, always battling for excellence in their struggle to get good reviews, are fearful that they will again get their brains beaten in by the papers. So . . . who is right? By the time you read this, we'll have the answer. That was a big laugh on Broadway about Judy Garland hav Surprise — -Carson gets married! ing nothing to do with those staff changes on her program. The releases said Judy sat quietly on the sidelines letting others run things. "Judy doesn't run things on that program," one friend of ours said, "any more than Khrushchev runs Russia." Selma Diamond's one of our very favorite people. Just as Tony Newley in "Stop the World" stands for "Littlejohn," Selma stands for "Littlejane" — the everyday woman who manages to be heard in this Age of The Corporate Image. Selma's been so bold as to threaten to go to the U.N. with a Permanent Peace Plan — guaranteed to succeed. "It's simple," she says. "Just have everybody in the U.S. and Russia get nose jobs and their teeth capped and nobody'd ever fight a lick." Selma also went before "Monitor's" microphone ("Comedy Time" segment) and adroitly fielded their loaded questions. Sample : Q. Selma. what is your exact height and weight? A. I'm a tall willowy blonde. Q. When were vou born? A. "!" Q. Would you say that you're not a day over twenty-five? A. Yes. I would say that I'm not a day over twenty-five. Q. Do you ever lie? A. Yes. (Please turn the page) Nick Adams looks dubious . . . but Donna Douglas was really swinging in the stars vs. sportswriters baseball game.