TELEVISION: Gambling on Guido

For showfolk, the shape of success may be a name in lights, a signature on a contract, a kind review. In the case of a witty Italian golf pro named Guido Panzini, it was a phone call from the U.S. Immigration Service. "We've been watching the Jack Paar Show," an immigration official told NBC. "Where can we find this guy Panzini? We've got no record of his port of entry."

U.S. bureaucracy had been taken in, along with 5,000,000 other Paaranoiacs.

For handsome Guido is the perpetrator of one of the slickest impersonations...

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