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Often during the summer, TV screens are lit by star-studded movies to break the rerun blues. But rarely are there so many name-dropping films...
...Welsh-born Pop Singer Jones is the hottest entertainer in the U.S. Six of his nine LPs are on the Billboard chart, and the latest four have won gold records in the past two months. His weekly TV show on ABC is clobbering the competition as a summer rerun. For his two-week engagement at Manhattan's Copacabana in May, the lines began forming as early as 3 o'clock in the afternoon. The Flamingo paid him $280,000 for four weeks, and he paid them back by selling out every concert...
...necessity of wrenching forth the old humor magazine again. Articles entitle i am yellow (curious) and the living cinema are to be disregarded as late deadline copy dependent solely and unsuccessfully on puns and props to compensate for lack of anything else. The rest of the copy features a rerun double-bill. Steve Kaplan '68 treats "boy meets girls" scenes à la Stanley Kramer, DeMille, Bergman, and Busby Berkelye. The Berkeley pair (Sally and Dan) dance into the sunset doing something called The Balumbo, containing for my money at least one great quatrain...
...next day, their reactions were considerably calmer than they had been the first time. But a test group of viewers, who did not have REM dreams because they were awakened before their brain waves began to show REM activity, could not get accustomed to the film. They watched the rerun with almost as much nervousness as they had shown during their first viewing...
...Barbara Jo, success is like a rerun on the late, late show. At age eight, she explains, "I saw Liz Taylor in National Velvet on TV, and from that time on I had my heart set on riding horses." She began her training at riding academies in Miami. After a year of a pre-veterinary course in junior college, she became an exercise girl at Tropical Park. Then, after repeated tries at breaking the sex barrier, she rode and won her first race six weeks ago in Charles Town, W. Va. "Horse racing is pretty rank [rough]," she admits...