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All may now rest easy: Frank has no intention of leaving the show or the role. He is a thoroughly accomplished entertainer and a suporb impersonator, but it was the Riddler that pushed him over the top. been around for a long he commented the other day while in New York for a gala Bat show at Shea stadium. 10 years people get to know the face and they sort of think, when you but the Riddler was the final catalyst that made me known everywhere, and by name. toien quite a whirl, and stay with the show as often as they want I have the he added in an off-hand way, striking a Bat heart with the icy fingers of doubt.

By having the time, he means that he is now involved in a hectic and pressured schedule. He is currently taping guest appearances for a television series next season, and starring in Makes Sammy in Los Angeles for two weeks. A FUNNY Gorshin remarked with the lopsided smile for which he has become famous. play a 65- year-old man in the first episode of the new show, H. E.

Cat, and then in the beginning of 19 years old. great: When we were taping, I was 19 in the morning and 65 at Frank was originally, by Steve Allen, who found him working for peanuts in a small Los Angeles nightclub. He was doing some of his incredible impressions of celebrities, and within two weeks he was doing them on television before millions of people. From then on, it has been upwards all the way until at this point he has done more than 70 guest shots, both dramatic and variety, including The Defenders, DuPont Show of the Week, Combat, Alfred Hitchcock. Andy Williams, Jack Paar, Sammy Davis and on and on and on.

been offered several TV he said, punctuating his conversation with the pointing finger-jabs used by the Riddler, not interested. been offered two Broadway shows, but I want to constrict my endeavors, if ya know what I mean. I am not anything in my career. I want to enjoy the fruits of my His impressions are among his labors, and he is unable to explain how they come about. Unlike impersonators, he sit down and study his subject, looking for particular gestures or tricks of the face.

look for things. It all started a long time ago when I was a kid, and I used to spend all my time in the movies. Well, when I used to come out of the theater, for a short time I WAS whatever person I had just seen: James Cagney, George Raft, anybody. I still do it. For instance, I think of Cary Grant or Burt Lancaster and right away just assumed their personality.

I tell you how I do it, because I know. TELL you one he went on- in the nasal, staccato voice that can change so quickly to any timbre, is an individual in this world. nobody you imitate if you really want to. Even if you have a plain face, or a face with no special characteristics at all, you can stand out because you are so unexceptional compared to other people. nobody that be Frank and the rest of the Batman gang have just finished shooting a Batman feature movie, which will have the usual gaggle of villains: the Penguin, the Joker, the Riddler and Catwoman.

going to be a funny- funny Frank said with glee. got all the same Bat stuff in it, but they've added a few tilings, like a Batcopter and a Batboat. premiering in Austin, August 1, and 'r hoping President Johnson will come. he mused, a funny thing about this whole Batman series. You need a frame of reference to enjoy it.

the No. 1 show in Japan, for instance and they never grew up on the comic book or saw the terrible old movies. funny. Out of all my appearances on TV, I did for Naked City, one for The Defenders and one for The Doctors and the everybody said, gee, you ought to get an award for that and well, I sort of thought and sort of hoped. But this Batman thing came along and it was the last thing in my mind, but I got an Emmy nomination.

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