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Post-show gathering at The Derby. Perry Mason's hero, plus Bill Talman, Barbara Hale, Ray Collins, Bill Hopper.
WHAT'S NEW ON THE WEST COAST
by Eunice Field
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Playing the field : Now it's ladies who prefer blonds. Dwayne Hickman lightened his thatch for the title role in the upcoming CBS-TV Dohie Gillis series, and pronto — -he was a magnet for a bevy of beauties. "Wowee!" yelped brother Darryl, "lead me to your dyepots." I kid you not, Dwayne actually cops eight gals in the comedy, not to mention Tuesday Weld as his steady. . . . A Gale-axy of stars: TV is headed the movie route, says producer Alex Gottlieb of the Gale Storm tee-hee show. AU-star lineups fatten the ratings. So this fall's series will have Jerry Colonna leading off, and a glittering roster coming to join Gale in her madcapping. . . . "Loved every second," warbles Julia Meade about her trip to Hollywood and doing her first movie (at U-I with Rock Hudson in "Any Way the Wind Blows") . Still, her pleasure was shadowed by worry over her pets, Cathy, a gray Persian, and Cecil, "just plain cat," who have never been out of their New York apartment home in all their eight years. She found them fit, furry and fascinating as ever, on
her return. . . . Peter Gunn gets the below-the-border treatment as "Pedro Pistola." . . . Sheb Wooley banks half his Rawhide loot and has made only one investment from his golden "Purple People Eater" disk — a 5,000-acre ranch in Nevada. "I'm not tight," chuckles Sheb, "only half so."
Coming: a new CBS-TV format to showcase their radio star. Rusty Draper. . . . Pals of Andra Martin and Ty (Bronco Layne) Hardin wondering whether to gift the expected baby with boots instead of booties. Dad only wears the hi-heelers and his latest — shades of Elvis! — are blue suede. How The Mop Flops: If all private-eye pilots now being filmed are sold, they will outnumber Westerns two to one, next season. . . . Richard Eastman, co-star of Tomhstone Territory, will wax the series* theme song. Dick was a Broadway musical star before he took on the straight acting chore.
Politicosts: NBC and CBS set to spend almost $4 million each, and ABC
more than $2 million, to cover the Democratic and Republican conventions. Both parties have storms brewing over Presidential candidates and platforms. Manufacturers stepping up production of sets, recalling how the 1952 conventions fixed the eyes of the world on the miracle box. . . . The Real Thing: A lallapaluzzi that's really a Paluzzi is here to do a series. The shapely signorina from Rome, real name Luciana Paluzzi, is to co-star with Al Hedison in 20th-Fox's Five Fingers. Lallapaluzzi has only one complaint about America: "The best men are already taken, and the worst are too taken with themselves." Hedison apparently doesn't fall into either category, since she seems plenty taken with him herself. Correction, Please: Producer John Guedel noticed an item in this column some weeks ago stating that only three Hollywood personalities drove Silver Cloud Rollses. John would like to go on record that he is the fourth such luminary to drive the $19,000 auto, and that his is the only green Silver Cloud in town. And we're (Continued on page 13)