Word: boffo
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...Daffodil. By last week, with both Blow-Up and Georgy Girl making boffo box office, the wave of acclaim had temporarily deposited both Redgrave girls in the U.S. Lynn was in Manhattan playing a dippy deb and bringing down the house night after night in the funniest show on Broadway: Peter Shaffer's Black Comedy. Vanessa was in Hollywood, playing Queen Guinevere in her first cinemammoth: a $17 million movie version of Broadway's Camelot, in which she sings in a musky mezzo and looks like a rain-washed daffodil in a fire-green Sussex meadow. On April 10, they...
Only five weeks after it was released, the platter had sold 500,000 copies and grossed $2,125,000; it was every bit as hot as the Beatles' first album. His career was off to such a boffo start that the new recording star, Illinois' Senator Everett McKinley Dirksen, 70, decided that a little TV exposure wouldn't hurt. He signed on to intone portions of his patriotic recital, Gallant Men, on ABC's Hollywood Palace, a taped show scheduled for Jan. 14. Unlike most vocalists, Ev is giving all the profits...
...Sunrise. Produced last week, it was the most lavish spectacle ever conjured by the Met, a triumph in a season of new productions that so far have ranged from big-scale to boffo. In Antony and Cleopatra, the scenery outweighed the music. La Traviata, Verdi's melancholy masterpiece, was buoyed by the stylish performances of Anna Moffo and Robert Merrill. La Gioconda, an en dearing old war horse, came vibrantly alive in an opulent but refreshingly conventional production, beautifully sung by Renata Tebaldi and Franco Corelli...
...Leary's new show ought to be socko box office, as Variety might put it, although nabes in the sticks will be better off running Tarzan instead. For acid heads and the impressionable, however, Leary provides all the right production values: religiose gimmicks, weirdo music, sexo fantasy, all boffo. Following a run of twelve weekly performances in Manhattan, Leary will open his show in California, which manages to be boffo, religioso, weirdo and sexo with or without LSD. The turn may not make psychedelic drug-taking and its kicks comprehensible to the average ticket buyer, but it ought...
...star of any TV western is boffo-provided he never lets on he is only an actor pretending to be a cowboy. Says Agent Mike North, the Hurok of the hinterlands: "You couldn't give away Bob Goulet, Frank Sinatra, or Dean Martin. And Danny Kaye and The Man from U.N.C.L.E. would also bomb." But those who can make it, make it big. Like, say, $15,000 a night...