Word: rooney
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...NEWS SPECIAL (CBS, 10-10:30 p.m.). Harry Reasoner narrates "Essay on Bridges" by Andrew Rooney. Repeat...
Then there are the Bantams, billed as "three pre-teens with a rocking sound three times their size." They look like Mickey Rooney windup dolls. They twist and shout, stomp their size-four black boots, shake their neck-length flaxen hair and shout, "I got lips that long to kiss you." The freckle-faced Bantams-Mike Kirchner, 12, and his brothers Jeff, 10, and Fritz, 9-honed their gritty style singing for coins on the beach at Venice, Calif., recently landed a recording and five-picture contract with Warner Bros. They are already TV veterans, are now shooting their first...
...same phrases appear over and over. Things are constantly "flowering up," the "rank weeds of bureaucracy" are pruned, and the fight is constantly being waged at the "grass roots." Mr. Villard also believes in the personal touch: he includes a detailed and scathing biographical sketch of John J. Rooney, Chairman of the House Subcommittee on State Department Appropriations, who opposes the use of the "proper lubricant" in diplomatic affairs...
Died. Barbara Ann Rooney, 29, sometime actress, fifth wife of movie actor Mickey Rooney; by gunshot (.38-cal. pistol), apparently at the hand of her friend of recent months, Milos Milosevic, 24, a sometime actor, who then committed suicide; in Mickey's Brentwood, Calif., home, after she had visited her ill (with a blood infection) husband in a nearby hospital, and promised not to see Milosevic again...
...this remake, MGM cooks the goose that laid the golden egg. Rarely have so many charmless performers been assembled. Zing, freshness, warmth, humor and yay-team vitality have been banished-presumably to please a new generation that will never know what it missed. The Garland-Rooney roles are taken over by Singers Connie Francis and Harve Presnell, who mope through the vintage show tunes as though they have memorized the words and music while disowning the message. Instead of getting-the-gang-together-to-put-on-a-dandy-show, they are paying off a gambling debt for Connie...