Sassoon became a member of the 43 Group, a Jewish veterans' militia organisation that broke up Fascist meetings in East London after the end of the war. In 1948 he joined the Israeli Defence Forces to fight in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.
Really? Bennett himself doesn't seem too upset...you can usually tell when someone on the panel has really ticked him off (like that "may I finish" incident with Henry Morgan).
Oh, he was pi$$ed alright! Cerf's comment "Here is the very last word on water pollution, callipygian damsels, and panel moderation, John Daly" says it all. He was putting her in her place. He knew that Daly would side with him.
It certainly does not seem to me that Gypsie Rose Lee's intention was to be offensive. But it is very easy, in attempting to be funny, to say things that are taken in a different spirit than they were intended.
Remember that the media then was much less extensive than now, and this was relatively near the beginning of his fame. His name was known but any photos in articles he was mentioned it would have been of his work, not him.
great episode and I'm surprised he was not recognized by the women on the panel...until Morgan's question. And he was an unpleasant, stick up the ass staple of talk shows like Merv Griffin's.
Nondescript Not quite. It doesn't explain your lack of joined up thinking. "If he's a world famous hair stylist ,why is he sporting a Jim Carrey Dumb and Dumber haircut?" What the hell does one thing have to do with the other?
