Word: chitchat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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curious." Speaking at a Pacific Coast writer's powwow, Emmy-winning TV Producer David Susskind, moderator of his own 10 p.,m.-to-sometime chitchat program (Open End), beamed out in the New York City area, was asked which of three presidential candidates on his recent shows came on as the strongest interviewee. Liberal Democrat Susskind gave Liberal Republican Nelson Rockefeller the poorest marks: "He evaded and dodged every effort to get him to substantiate what he had said in public only a few days earlier." Another disheartening performer was Democrat Adlai Stevenson: "I approached him with something like...
...losers ($250 and $500 bonuses for small and grand slams). As Goren and TV Commentator Alex Dreier spin out a running dialogue on the bid and play from a glassed-in booth, the cameras and microphones hover over the table, picking up hands and the players' chitchat. Goren never erases his own predictions from the sound track when he is wrong, or the cardsmen's bad plays when they occur...