Paramount Pictures ' Bob Hope was Caught In The Draft, Warner Brothers told Phil Silvers and Jimmy Durante You're In The Army Now, Columbia Pictures put Fred Astaire in the army declaring You'll Never Get Rich, Hal Roach gave his new comedy team of William Tracy and Joe Sawyer Tanks a Million and 20th Century Fox had the former Hal Roach team of Laurel & Hardy going Great Guns.

The large supporting cast included Herbie Faye ( a former burlesque crony of Silvers ') as Pvt.

The show won Tonys for Silvers and Blyden.

Every actor who has opened in the role of Pseudolus on Broadway ( Zero Mostel, Phil Silvers and Nathan Lane ) won a Best Actor Tony Award for their performance.

Phil Silvers was impressed by Gwynne from his work in Mrs. McThing and sought him for his television show.

Maurice Gosfield, who played Private Duane Doberman on The Phil Silvers Show, also provided the voice for Benny the Ball in Top Cat ( Benny's rotund appearance was based on Gosfield too ).

By then, Berle and his audience had probably burned out on each other, and Buick had even dropped sponsorship of the show at the beginning of the 1955 – 1956 season ( opting to sponsor Jackie Gleason's half-hour filmed edition of The Honeymooners ), after ratings fell dramatically during the 1954 – 1955 as well ( the higher ratings of his 1955 – 56 competition, The Phil Silvers Show on CBS, didn't help Berle, either ); though Berle would remain one of the nation's beloved entertainers, overall, the show that made him a superstar was clearly spent for steam and fresh ideas, and two subsequent attempts at television comebacks hosting his own show lasted barely a year each.

Gleason was nominated for Best Actor – Continuing Performance but lost to Phil Silvers, while Meadows was nominated for Best Actress in a Supporting Role but lost to Nanette Fabray.

In 1968 she starred in Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell with Shelley Winters, Phil Silvers, and Telly Savalas, the plot of which is the basis for the stage musical Mamma Mia!

" In 2012, editor Bob Silvers told The New York Times, " The great political issues of power and its abuses have always been natural questions for us.

In awarding to Epstein and Silvers its Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the American Literary Community in 2006, the National Book Foundation stated: " With The New York Review of Books, Robert Silvers and Barbara Epstein raised book reviewing to an art and made the discussion of books a lively, provocative and intellectual activity.

* 2008 Thoughtcast interview of Silvers for NRB's 45th anniversary

" He is best known for starring in The Phil Silvers Show, a 1950s sitcom set on a U. S. Army post in which he played Sergeant Bilko.

Silvers next worked in short films for the Vitaphone studio, such as Ups and Downs ( 1937 ), and on Broadway, where he made his debut in the short-lived show Yokel Boy in 1939.

Silvers wrote the lyrics for Frank Sinatra's " Nancy ( With the Laughing Face )".

) Silvers dominated the show and won a Tony Award for his performance.

Silvers never did stand-up, and out of character, he was not known for cracking jokes.

Silvers returned to Broadway in the musical Do Re Mi in December 1960, receivng a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical.

It was " ne of the worst nights of my life ', Silvers told the driver, adding, " Don't wait for any lights and don't wait for any tip.

Voice actor Daws Butler employed an impression of Silvers as the voice of the Hanna-Barbera cartoon character Hokey Wolfand also used the same voice in numerous cartoons for Jay Ward.

The premise of The Phil Silvers Show was the basis for the Hanna-Barbera cartoon Top Cat, for which Arnold Stang moderately imitated Silvers ' voice for the title character.

He collaborated with many of the big name entertainers visiting Portland, among the most recent being Jimmy Durante and Phil Silvers.

The show's creators originally wanted Phil Silvers in the lead role of Pseudolus, but he turned them down, allegedly because he would have to perform onstage without his glasses, and his vision was so poor that he feared tripping into the orchestra pit.

( Silvers went on to play the role — wearing his glasses — in a 1972 revival.

In 1972 there was a critically well-received Broadway revival, directed by co-author Burt Shevelove and starring Phil Silvers as Pseudolus ( followed later by Tom Poston in the role ), Lew Parker as Senex and Reginald Owen as Erronius.

The production ran 156 performances, but had to close soon after Phil Silvers suffered a stroke.

After filming Lucky Me with Phil Silvers and Young at Heart ( both 1954 ) with Frank Sinatra, Day chose not to renew her contract with Warner Brothers.

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Has won two Golds and two Silvers at the 2006 and 2010 Winter Olympics.

In 1967, James was intending to play Sergeant Nocker in Follow That Camel, but suffered a massive heart attack and was replaced by the American comic actor Phil Silvers.

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** Phil Silvers, American actor and comedian ( d. 1985 )

Long John Silvers food offerings include platters, sandwiches, and various single items.

Over the years, Lynde made regular appearances on sitcoms such as The Phil Silvers Show, The Munsters, and I Dream of Jeannie, and variety shows such as The Perry Como Show and The Dean Martin Show.

As a result, in 1955, Gwynne made a memorable appearance on The Phil Silvers Show, in the episode " The Eating Contest " as the character Private Honigan, whose depressive eating binges are exploited by Sgt.

Bilko ( Phil Silvers ), who seeks prize money by entering Honigan in an eating contest.

The film was written by Harry W. Conn, Moss Hart, Jack McGowan and Sid Silvers.

* 2006: Robert B. Silvers and Barbara Epstein

* Robert B. Silvers ( 1929 –), editor of The New York Review of Books

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In 1964, the brothers Jos and Klaas Molenaar, former players for KFC and owners of a growing appliance store chain, sought to create a powerful football team in the Zaanstreek by merging the two local professional teams ( KFC and ZFC ).

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While the conflict has been called by some " The War of the Amateurs ", the White Army had two major advantages over the Red Guards in the war: the professional military leadership of General Mannerheim and his staff — which included 84 Swedish volunteer officers and former Finnish officers of the Tsar's army — and 1, 450 soldiers of the 1, 900-strong, elite " Jäger " battalion.

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Unusually, and despite many offers from other clubs, he remained at Fulham for his entire professional career, until leaving for South Africa in 1970, where he played for the now defunct Durban City, alongside former Fulham teammates Johnny Byrne and Bobby Keetch.

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However, the foundation of memetics in full modern incarnation originates in the publication in 1996 of two books by authors outside the academic mainstream: Virus of the Mind: The New Science of the Meme by former Microsoft executive turned motivational speaker and professional poker player, Richard Brodie, and Thought Contagion: How Belief Spreads Through Society by Aaron Lynch, a mathematician and philosopher who worked for many years as an engineer at Fermilab.

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