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...dress him up and have him act like a teenage busboy at a summer camp. Even if Peter is little more than an eager lad beginning a career in the cinema, he has a lot more substance than Hoffman brings to the part. Paul Benedict, a sort of anchor-man in this repertory group, gives the audience some good comedy as Alex, but I am disappointed to see how inflexible he is an actor. He adds a slight Scottish burr for the present occasion; otherwise he hasn't changed a whit from what he was in Waiting for Godot...
...theory seems to be: if the anchor does not hold, cut it free and drift with the tide. In TV coverage of political conventions, the tide is running to paired team acts like NBC's Huntley and Brinkley rather than single masterminds like CBS's Walter Cronkite. So, gasping in defeat-by-ratings after the San Francisco convention, CBS last week announced that it was replacing Anchorman Cronkite. Its new we-too duet consists of Robert Trout and Roger Mudd, who will be pingponging in Atlantic City at the Democratic Convention three weeks hence, while Cronkite merely carries...
...story is purely and simply the Madison-Avenue-ratings game," Cronkite commented last week with a patient shrug. "We have decided upon this change in assignments," hummed CBS News President Fred W. Friendly, "because we have concluded that a dual anchor arrangement provides more flexibility, mobility, and diversity of coverage." What he did not explain is why Cronkite is not at least one of the flukes of the new anchor. Is it because Friendly has never cared much for Cronkite, or because he thinks that Captain Cronkite does not easily mesh with other newsmen...
Surprise. Maddox's lawyers argued that it is unconstitutional to anchor the public accommodations title to the commerce clause. Furthermore, they reasoned, while Pickrick does discriminate against Negroes, the restaurant's policy legally does not have anything to do with interstate commerce, as specified in the bill. Even Pickrick's food, though it "once moved" in interstate commerce, is purchased nowadays from local wholesale brokers, the lawyers insisted, and thus is no longer an interstate transaction...
...Sherdeman) that in recent years has turned out two other children's classics: A Dog of Flanders (1959) and Misty (1961). In all three pictures Radnitz & Co. have provided sentiment without sentimentality and a moral without a lecture. This time they also provide some smashing scenery-the Anchor Bay country of northern California-without too pointedly stopping to stare at it. And they provide two remarkably attractive performers. Celia Kaye, in her first film, makes the most charming Indian maiden since pretty Red Wing. And the actor who plays the mongrel-his name is Junior...