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...hour show's "entertainment and information" format is so far a staccato muddle of the shallowly portentous ("What is your outlook on the state of the world, Roy?" asked former New York Mayor John Lindsay, now a guest commentator on the show, of British Home Secretary Roy Jenkins) and the trivial (last Monday was Joan of Arc's birthday). Jazzy film montages flick past to numbingly appropriate pop music (example: shots of gold bars set to the strains of Donovan's Mellow Yellow). The only relief is the show's solidly professional, twice-hourly newscast anchored...
...format was to become a permanent structure. Even today, Benny's influence still echoes around the channels. Jack's wisecracking girl friend -and offstage wife-Mary Livingstone is the original of Rhoda. Don Wilson, the pompous announcer, can be seen in Ted Knight's role on the Mary Tyler Moore show. The drunken bandleader, Phil Harris, is a 100-proof version of Ed McMahon, Johnny Carson's sidekick. Rochester, the sardonic Negro valet, is the granddaddy of all the servants, black and white, who have hilariously put down their employers since the invention of the vacuum...
Vain Lothario. Yet Jack preferred the format that had brought him recognition and riches. By the '50s, his TV program style-lifted bodily from the old radio days-had grown as rigid and formal as a state ceremony. Yet his fans never grew weary of the latter-day Scrooge...
...Editor Friedrich and for all of us, the project offers an adventure in journalism. We hope that we can use the TIME format to convey not only the big news events but the flavor and quality of colonial life. Perhaps in discussing what we faced in 1776, we can also put the problems of our own time in better perspective...
...MAJORITY of the Kink kultists present, the situation could not have been more utopian. Not only did the concert start promptly, but there was no warm-up group to try the waiting audience's patience. Furthermore, the two-part format of the concert allowed the audience to have its cake and eat, too. The first part, which lasted close to an hour, consisted of a well-chosen selection of former hits including such favorites as "You Really Got Me," "Celluloid Heroes," "Skin and Bones," "Here Comes Yet Another Day," and "Waterloo Sunset." When Ray Davies wasn't flopping around like...