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...stars give other reasons for bringing their children along. Comedian George Gobel says "all children have a need to identify with their dad's work." Arlene Francis puts Peter, 10, on camera because "I just like to have him with me. Some people don't want to go into their private lives, but I think we on TV belong to the public." Groucho Marx offers a more practical reason for having daughter Melinda, 11, as a guest: "She's not in my tax bracket. We can keep what she makes...
...says "Watch him"-the sort of trick that "you could teach a dog to do by smearing meat on the actors." But when Patti lent her big, plain voice to the color-drenched proceedings, she was as pretty and wholesome as a milkmaid. The new George Gobel-Eddie Fisher songfest was not exactly the "wonderful show" Eddie called it, but shy, impish Lonesome George again proved himself the master of the minor key-even when delivering a monologue plugging NBC color. Of all the new musicals, the best was the simplest: The Lux Show (replacing the old Lux Theater), with...
...will present filmed portraits of Dr. Vannevar Bush, Jacques Maritain, Igor Stravinsky, Pablo Picasso and David Ben-Gurion. Wide Wide World returns Sundays to alternate with Omnibus, which promises to bring back Joseph Welch, Leonard Bernstein, and "some bright new faces." Crooner Eddie Fisher will team up with George Gobel in a new variety series, Giselle MacKenzie gets her own show, Jill Corey takes the spotlight on Your Hit Parade. In addition to his Tegular CBS chores, Alfred Hitchcock will produce and direct ten films for NBC's Suspicion; Bob Hope and Jerry Lewis return with six specials each...
...Ernie Ford show, I thoroughly enjoyed the fine article [May 27] you did on Mr. Ford. I must take exception, however, to one statement: you say "the only one who had an ulcer on the Ford show was the producer, and he brought that over from the Gobel show." I have never had the pleasure of working with two finer men than both George Gobel and Ernie Ford, and I like to feel that my ulcer is an occupational disease not derived from either show...
...mass appeal." Ford works an eleven-hour work day on his five daytime shows (soon to be dropped by him) and single night entry without getting ruffled. "The only one around here who has an ulcer is the producer, and he brought it over with him from the Gobel show," says an associate. "I don't think being all strung up like a cornstalk fiddle helps," explains Ernie...