Word: actor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Balloons cascaded down, toilet paper was unfurled, horns honked and musical instruments tootled away as Actor Peter Ustinov was installed as the first Rector of the University of Dundee by Queen Mother Elizabeth. He then turned his attention to a wry 40-minute speech dealing in part with the foibles of Yankee politics. Said Rector Ustinov: "We may feel safer in the hands of Mr. Nixon whose smile, unlike that of Mr. Humphrey, seems to be formed by the pull of an invisible bit, as ambition tugs at the reins before the final hurdle. Or we may be influenced...
...confronted with a new problem: how to portray the Negro. Self-conscious to a fault, integrated commercials never show a Negro as a heavy or in a menial position. Nor are blacks ever afflicted with bad breath or body odor. Kool cigarettes, for example, casts a Negro actor as a bright young trial lawyer; Viceroy casts another as a bright young stockbroker. Schaefer beer has a junior executive type who plays hand ball at the club with a white friend, who throws his arm around his shoulder as they stroll off to a classy cocktail lounge...
...basic question, as Negro Actor Ossie Davis states it, is "Who interprets the Negro to the American? Basically, it has been done by the whites." As a result, says a Negro marketing consultant, D. Parke Gibson, "integrated advertising can only change the whites' image of Negroes. It cannot change the Negroes' image of themselves." Thus, says Gibson, the reaction of the black community to integrated ads is "neutral" and has little or no effect on their buying patterns...
...easiest way to avoid the problems of portrayal is what Negro Actor Robert Hooks calls the "copout: Put the Negroes in the background-blurred and slightly out of focus-and show them for just a split second." Indeed, despite the trend toward integrated ads, the agencies are often too reluctant to let the Negro step front and center. In one study of 8,279 ads shown over a three-week period late last year, only 199 contained nonwhite performers, and of that number just 16 had lead or speaking roles. By showing a few black faces on the fringe...
Died. Lee Tracy, 70, veteran actor, who came to epitomize the fast-talking, wisecracking newsman during a career that spanned nearly half a century; of cancer; in Santa Monica, Calif. After a successful start in 1928 as a brash reporter in Broadway's The Front Page, Tracy played variations on the same role in Clear All Wires (1933) and Power of the Press (1943). He reached the top in 1964, when he played the aging ex-President in The Best...