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...years, and some of the people who want him now were not there when he needed them. Born in Puerto Rico, the second of eight brothers, he was raised in a Manhattan slum after his father gave up farming to find a job in New York City. Jose learned to play the concertina at six and the guitar at nine. The advent of rock 'n' roll in the 1950s inspired him to try singing, too. At 17, he began plying the coffee-house circuit from Greenwich Village to Chicago's Old Town, combining folk music with rock...
...applause for the dextrous way that he applied blues and a beat to the delicate lines of traditional Spanish guitar. But his high, quavery tenor, though obviously brimming with feeling, was merely good; it had too much of other singers in it and too little of Feliciano. So Jose spent some lean years in search not only of exposure but also of an identity...
...CASE OF LIBEL (ABC, 9-11 p.m.). An adaptation of Henry Denker's 1963 courtroom drama based on Louis Nizer's account (My Life in Court) of the case of Quentin Reynolds v. Westbrook Pegler. Starring Van Heflin, Lloyd Bridges, Angie Dickinson. Jose Ferrer and E. G. Marshall. Repeat...
...same time, Joan (pronounced Jo-ahn) Miró is wide awake. He rises early in the morning, puts in a quick ten minutes of exercise, by 8 a.m. is hard at work in the white stucco studio in Majorca designed for him by Architect Jose Luis Sert, in 1956. Both the studio and the 13-room, 200-year-old stone farmhouse behind it which serves Miró as an annex, are crammed with his new paintings and sculptures. Among them stand the found objects that furnish at once a touchstone to reality and the impetus to further dreams: a child...
...that kind of money, the mini-moviemakers command top talent. Frank Sinatra sells Budweiser beer. Sid Caesar does a comedy routine for Sperry Rand, while Jose Ferrer supplies the voice-over continuity. Edward G. Robinson poured for Maxwell House coffee. Jack Benny promotes Texaco gasoline. George Burns puffs El Producto cigars. Sometimes the process is reversible. Actress Barbara Feldon was a sexy slink of a salesgirl for Top Brass hairdressing ("Sic 'em, tiger") before she went big on legit TV as co-star of Get Smart! Pam Austin, the original Dodge girl, is now a member of the cast...