Word: actor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...exclusively on publication." Result: a neglect of what teachers are hired for-teaching-and "a great deal of foolish and unnecessary research . . . undertaken by men who bring to their investigations neither talent nor interest." The ambitious academician's sole aim is to accumulate published titles, as a young actor squirrels away television credits. Title-squirreling pays off: "Success is likely to come to the man who has learned to neglect his assigned duties" in favor of his "private professional interests...
...Wynn Show (NBC, Thurs., 8-8:30 p.m.) covers much the same ground with the same sentimental tarpaulin. Old Vaudevillian Wynn, who last year at 70 rose up as a dramatic actor in The Great Man, brings only hints of his legendary Palace clowning to his new home-a simple frame house in a small college town. As a kindly widower raising two grand-daughters-and all sorts of sagacious Cain with the town fathers-Wynn emits enough warmth to heat Buffalo for a month. It is as comedy that the show...
Hollywood Housewife Anna O'Callaghan Kashfi Brando was burned, burned, burned with her husband. Last week, less than a year after her sudden marriage to Actor Marlon Brando, Anna announced that she and Marlon were bust. Sighed she: "I can no longer take his indifference and his strange way of living." Commented Hollywood Seer Hedda Hopper: "He has a terrific following among members of the Beat Generation. He loves the adulation of a mob. After that, going home to a family must seem humdrum." Thus the handy Beat Generation label, a device more literary than lifelike that has been...
Harry Black and the Tiger (20th Century-Fox). If tigers had actors' agents, this movie might have kicked up a squabble along producers' row. The tiger so clearly deserves top billing. While all the two-legged characters wade around uncertainly in one another's shallow psyches, the purposeful tabby chews up half the population of India (although only two on-camera) and chops Actor Stewart Granger to bits. Prowling through the hill country of southern India, Cameraman Harry Gillan has brought back some startling footage on a real cool...
Unfortunately, there are a few squares loitering in the tall grass. Actor Granger strides up answering to the name of Harry Black, a famed hunter hired by the government to dispatch the tiger. He quickly corners the beast and is squeezing his finger on the trigger when a Land Rover roars by and scares it away. Drat! To make matters worse, behind the wheel of the Rover is an old war buddy (Anthony Steel), whom Harry Black treats with untropical coolness. After a couple of flashbacks, the viewer learns why: not only did Steel's cowardice...