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Singer Shore goes about her painstaking rehearsals with the same simple warmth and magnolia-scented vivacity she exudes onscreen, but "deep down," says a close friend, "she's insecure. Everything that's happened to her is so good that she's afraid it will disappear tomorrow. So she drives hard all the time...
...money-making Lassie team came when 71-year-old Actor George Cleveland (Gramps) died of a heart attack shortly before he was to be script-spirited away to the hospital with a broken hip. After consulting a child psychologist, Producer Robert Maxwell decided to have Gramps die onscreen of the infirmities of old age. At first the notion raised suspicion in Sponsor Campbell's Soup, which balked at the idea of a TV death based on life, came around only after Maxwell promised to expunge from the script specific references to death or dying. This week Gramps...
...File, white-haired and 60, was a tame version of the once combustible keyhole crier. Gone were the high-decibel-count croak and Morse-key jangle, the creaky song-and-dance routines of last year's variety show. Now there was only the occasional clatter of the typewriter-onscreen and off-and on TV even this was restrained enough to be realistic. Though File claims to be based on his "private files," Winchell admits there are fictitious strokes "to avoid any trouble legally." Did he always beat the cops to the scene when prowling around Manhattan? "Normally the cops...
Icarus Hampden-so symbolic a character that he never appears onscreen-is a Ferndale upperclassman grown disgusted with bungling adults and their clumsy efforts to avert planetary suicide. To show up his belligerent pacifist father (John Mills), Icarus organizes a Hydraheaded insurrection at Ferndale, torments the school's bedeviled head (Alastair Sim) into a hand-wringing funk, even has a detested master potted in the backside with a homemade blunderbuss. But these exploits are merely diversionary tactics to mask Icarus' Big Idea. The earthshaking plot: Icarus plans to pilot a stolen airplane to Vienna, jar the Big Four...
...camera. Manager Graham fumed as outside news photographers elbowed his own cameramen for choice shots. Producer Gimbel exploded because a Dairy Queen station commercial that had been dropped three days earlier got squeezed onscreen by mistake. But Executive Producer John Reddy was happy about all the publicity because the show is only partly sponsored. Perhaps he should take the late Fred Allen's advice and "save money by ordaining the announcer...