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...T.H.E. CAT (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). Robert Loggia plays a character named Thomas Hewitt Edward Cat in the tale of a cat burglar turned crime fighter. In the premiere, he acts as a bodyguard for a fearless priest threatened by the underworld...
Birth of a Tiger Cat. The rise of Lin Piao to the penultimate rung on the Peking ladder of power is itself the story of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. No one in his native Hupeh province would have expected him to become a guerrilla leader 19 years after he was born in Twisting Dragon Hill, the son of a felt-factory owner. In Manchu China, boys would be soldiers: off to Canton's Whampoa Military Academy went Lin, where he studied under Chiang Kaishek, in the company of such revolutionary notables as Chou...
...Whampoa, he changed his name from Yu-Yung (Fostering Demeanor) to Piao (Tiger Cat). With that, he sprang into the field, and by the late 1920s, he was a regimental commander for the puritanical Communist General Chu Teh, whose political officer was a plump, moonfaced youngster named Chen Yi, now Peking's Foreign Minister. Many of Chu's 40,000 troops were armed with bows and arrows, and his artillery consisted of hollow logs loaded with rocks and scrap metal. The troopers sang Chinese versions of Dixie and raided Nationalist camps on feast days in order...
Oscar-winning Cat Ballou, she was outclassed by everything onscreen, including Lee Marvin's horse. In any case, there were others who helped along the way. An old family friend, Joshua Logan, directed her in starring roles in both her first film (Tall Story) and first play (There Was a Little Girl), and Daddy, "nonverbal" as she thinks he is, could not have been a total liability...
...dear departed who devoted themselves especially to Jewish causes, Jessel always has a few extra words of praise. Jack Benny recalls that Jessel's "nicest eulogy was for one of James Mason's cats. You wouldn't believe what that cat had done for Israel...