Older actors draw focus in TV ads as audiences mature
New York agencies report a shift toward mature voices in national commercials. Producers like Ted Bates & Co. cast seasoned performers to portray “the smart old hand,” with 18,000 yearly spots still featuring ethnic actors and spokeskids. Production costs average about 13,500 dollars per 30 second spot.
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Rolly Bester
Ted Bates & Co
Cybil Shepherd
Jennifer O'Neill
Sandy Duncan
Laurence Luckinbill
Barbara Felton
Madison Avenue
Maxwell House
Margaret Hamilton
Wicked Witch
Jan Miner
Madge
Nancy Walker
Bounty Towels
Robert Morley
Peter Sellers
Mae Questel
Hollywood
Chicago
Dallas
Miami
Williams New Play “Otherwise Engaged” Draws London Fame
London’s Alan Bates stars in Simon Gray’s new drama Seen as literate and funny yet deeply sad, the play follows a successful publisher whose emotional detachment unsettles his circle The production highlights strong acting by Bates and a tight, intimate staging that could broaden appeal if awkward soliloquies are trimmed and stage scornful interruptions reduced
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London
UPI
Broadway
Butley
Alan Bates
Harold Pinter
Simon Gray
Bates
Gray
Oxford
Peter Shaffer
Alan Ayckbourn
Neil Simon
Baltimore
David Merrick
Quaigh
Merrick
Williams
Bobby Kennedy Jr stars in Africa wildlife special
New York based TV producer Roger Ailes describes filming The Last Frontier in Kenya with Bobby Kennedy Jr. The Harvard student and outdoorsman hosts the hour long wildlife program shot near Nairobi Kilimanjaro and Amboseli. Ailes sees a pilot for future shows and notes Kennedy’s bravery and hands on role.
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New York
UPI
Roger E. Ailes
Bobby Kennedy Jr
Robert F. Kennedy
Ailes
Richard Nixon
Kennedy
Harvard
Africa
Kenya
ABC
Group W
Post Newsweek
Los Angeles
New York City
Bobby Kennedy
Marlin Perkins
Peter Graves
Lorne Greene
Scott Carpenter
Ford
Jack
Virginia
Bobby
Amazon
Young Kennedy
Nairobi
Mt. Kilimanjaro
Amboseli Park
Cowsill files bankruptcy as pop group fades
William J. Cowsill, former business manager of the Cowsills, filed for bankruptcy on June 27 in Rhode Island. He said the act grossed over 600000 in 1969 but left him about 50 in pocket money, with debts of 445339.01 owed to hotels, recording studios and others. The family group, including his wife, daughter and five sons, folded in 1970 after hits like Indian Lake and The Rain The Park and Other Things.
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Bobby
Kennedy
Ailes
Lake Niavasha
Ethel Kennedy
Roger
Africa
Providence
R.I
UPI
William J. Cowsill
Cowsill
USS
Indian Lake
How to take care of an ailing tuba
Richard Allin of the Arkansas Symphony and Arkansas Gazette notes a sick double B-flat tuba could not hold middle-C. Dr. Glenn Dalrymple X-rayed the instrument, found no internal foreign object, and suggested rest and air as a remedy, comparing the issue to minor athlete’s foot rather than a serious problem.
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Ark
UPI
Richard Allin
Arkansas Symphony Orchestra
Arkansas Gazette
Allin
Glenn Dalrymple
Department of Radiology
University Medical Center
Dalrymple
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