On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 2:33 PM, Mark Jeffries <[email protected]>wrote:
> On TV variety, only Perry Como matched Mr. Williams' casualness--he hosted > several programs in his long-lasting career as a pop singer, the early 60s > one on NBC notable for introducing the Osmonds to television and an early > 70s stint on NBC for having producers Allan Blye and Chris Bearde surround > him with a cast of zanies like Prof. Irwin Corey, Charlie Callas and a > talking bear continually asking for cookies, of which the joke was that the > bear was the only thing that would make Mr. Williams lose his trademark > cool: > > > http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/la-mew-andy-williams-dies-20120926,0,7479266.story > To post to this > My mother was of the generation that really dug Breakfast at Tiffany's, and she would sing Moonriver in the car while driving constantly when I was a kid. In the days when we (like most people we knew) only had one television in the house, with maybe 7 options, she always made us watch the Andy Williams Show - I learned to hate him. These days I do get a warm feeling hearing Moonriver, but I most often listen to the Hepburn version, which I have on my Ipod. Personally, I can't think of Williams without also thinking of Claudine Longet and Spider Sabich, her because I was shocked when she shot Sabich that she was so hot (in my mind Williams was, at that time, a very old man) and him because I had seen him ski in whatever Olympics tha was (72?). -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
