Word: janssen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MONSANTO NIGHT PRESENTS LENA HORNE (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Lena makes musicwith David (The Fugitive) Janssen, Singer O. C. Smith and Hungarian Folk Guitarist Gabor Szabo...
...Chinese leader is a strutting Yellow Peril who does everything but say "Die, Yankee dog"; it is inconceivable that he could be melted by any gesture of the Vatican. And David Janssen, as a TV correspondent covering the Vatican, is even more awkward among the red hats than he was as a journalist with The Green Berets. Before the Pope straightens out her life Janssen's wife (Barbara Jefford) accuses him of spending the night with a girl friend. "You really pick a helluva time to bring that up," he says...
CHRYSLER PRESENTS THE BOB HOPE SPECIAL (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). Hope's guests are Gwen Verdon and David Janssen...
...Director and Star John Wayne, the war is primer-simple. There's them and there's us. Us are the Green Beret crack troops led by Wayne with a chestful of fruit salad and a no-nonsense approach to the dovish American press, personified by David Janssen. During the beating of a V.C., Reporter Janssen protests, "There's such a thing as due process." "Out here," sneers Wayne, "due process is a bullet." Built on the primitive lines of a standard western, Berets even has the South Vietnamese talking like movie Sioux: "We build many camps, clobber...
Anticipating history a bit, the film ends with Victor Charlie in full retreat and the good guys in control. Even Janssen is flapping his right wing and impugning his liberal-minded employers: "If I say what I feel, I may be out of a job." Among other dubious distinctions, Green Berets wins this year's Yellow Peril award for a line spoken by a sly South Vietnamese general who spots Wayne eying a willowy Oriental star (Irene Tsu). "Besides being one of our top models," he says, "she could be most helpful to our government...