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Innovations, from PVI's range rainbow to computerized plays etched on the screens to ever more intimate camera angles, are only enriching the NFL's small-screen legacy. Television thrust football, more than any other pro-sports league, into the national psyche when in the 1960s NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle negotiated deals with the networks to beam his game, just once a week, into living rooms across the country on fall and winter Sunday afternoons. The sport has maintained its allure ever since: Fox and CBS each average more than 19 million viewers a week for their Sunday games, placing...
DIED. PHILIPPE DE BROCA, 71, director of frenetic film comedies of France's New Wave; in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. A onetime assistant to François Truffaut, he made dozens of films over five decades but gained most acclaim in the 1960s with the spy spoof That Man from Rio, which followed Jean-Paul Belmondo on a global search for a statuette, and the antiwar satire King of Hearts, starring a young Alan Bates as a disillusioned World War I soldier, a flop in France but a longtime art-house cult...
...landing roles in westerns like The Sundowners and High Lonesome, and appearing in a string of low-budget films in the U.S. and abroad. But he abused drugs and alcohol, frequently got into fights and was jailed several times for drunkenness and domestic violence. By the late 1960s his career had fizzled, and he spent his later years largely as a recluse...
...invisible. In Epileptic, a moving account of his brother's debilitating illness, he delivers compelling cartoon metaphors for elusive concepts like longing. The result, due out in early January, is a graphic novel that's a worthy successor to Art Spiegelman's Maus.Set in Europe during the late 1960s and early '70s, Epileptic tells the story of David B.'s family members as they struggle to help his brother, trying out "cures" from mediums to exorcisms. A seizure is depicted as his brother twisting in the coils of a giant snake. David B. says, "I didn't want...
People who say Kinsey is to blame for the sexual revolution may be right. What they forget, however, is that the sexual openness of the 1960s on forward had to come out of the sexually repressive decade before. If we follow this pattern, then in the decades to come we’ll experience a new wave of sexual progress. Historical patterns lead me to believe that the Neo-conservative, sexually repressive current state of affairs will give way to a second sexual revolution, in which we learn all sorts of new kinky facts about our fellow Americans...