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MORENO: ANONYMOUS/AP/SHUTTERSTOCK;
THE BEVERLY HILLIBILLIES
: CBS-TV/KOBAL/SHUTTERSTOCK
~ TONY AWARDS ~
BEST PLAY
Robert Bolt,A Man for All Seasons
BEST MUSICAL
How to Succeed in Business
Without Really Trying
~ GRAMMY AWARDS ~
RECORD OF THE YEAR
Tony Bennett,
“I Left My Heart in San Francisco”
BEST FOLK RECORDING
Peter, Paul and Mary,
“If I Had a Hammer”
BEST RHYTHM & BLUES
RECORDING
Ray Charles,
“I Can’t Stop Loving You”
BEST ROCK & ROLL
RECORDING
Bent Fabric, “Alley Cat”
BEST NEW ARTIST
Robert Goulet
KENTUCKY DERBY WINNER
Decidedly
MASTERS GOLF TOURNAMENT
Arnold Palmer
~ ACADEMY AWARDS ~
BEST MOTION PICTURE
WestSideStory
BEST ACTOR
Maximilian Schell,
JudgmentatNuremberg
BEST ACTRESS
Sophia Loren, TwoWomen
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
George Chakiris, WestSideStory
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Rita Moreno, WestSideStory
W
ell, doggies!The Beverly
Hillbillies debuted in
1962 and shot to the
top of the Nielsen ratings after
only three weeks.
We bet you can still sing the
theme song. What else do you
remember about the clan?
1
Name the show’s theme
song and three synonyms
used in the song to
describe oil.
2
The song ends with
what invitation?
3
What did the Clampetts
call the swimming pool?
4
WhatdidEllyMay
affectionately call her pets?
5
WhatwasJethro’slast
name and how was he
related to Jed?
6
What was Granny’s
relationship to Jed?
7
What was the name of
Jed’s cranky banker?
8
What was the name of the
banker’s stuffy secretary?
9
Who owned Duke and
what kind of dog was he?
10
What was Granny’s
most popular stew?
11
What did the family call
the billiards table?
1962 TOPS IN ENTERTAINMENT
BY DEBRA STEILEN
Check your answers on page 64.
C
hubby Checker’s 1960
million-selling song “The
Twist”fadedawayafter
afour-monthrun.Twoyearslater,
however, Checker’s dusty disc
reappeared and, for the second
time,hitNo.1onBillboard’slist.
The credit—or blame—for this
unusualdevelopmentgoestoone
veryfunkyManhattandancejoint.
ThePeppermintLounge,located
at128W.45thSt.inNewYork
City,wasasmoke-filled,Times
Square-areaclubwithalong
mahoganybarinfrontandasmall
dance floor in back.
Big Apple jet-setters, fueled by
society columnist Igor Cassini, had
begun packing the place once
word spread that the dimly lit dive
RANDALCHILLwrites about
music from his home in Bandon, OR.
was now the social epicenter
for trendy adult twisters.
Seen gyrating amid the hoi
polloi were such A-listers as
Marilyn Monroe, Truman Capote,
Greta Garbo, Norman Mailer and
Judy Garland.
The second twist craze—bigger
than the first—soon swept across
America and sold records well
into 1962, with singles by Chubby
Checker and Dee Dee Sharp
(“Slow Twistin’”), Sam Cooke
(“Twistin’ the Night Away”) and
Gary U.S. Bonds (“Dear Lady
Twist,” “Twist, Twist Senora”) all
reaching Billboard’s Top Ten.
LET’S TWIST AGAIN...AND AGAIN
Trivial
PursuitS
A MAN NAMED JED
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(Frankie)
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