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While preparing a film for the BBC about some Jewish children during World War II, Parker and his friend. Producer Alan Marshall, were toying with the idea of making their first feature. Parker kept his own kids entertained on long car trips with some improvised stories about a sawed-off gangster named Bugsy Malone...
Although Santa Fe is not a touring company, they will make a record of their hit production. The BBC and WNET filmed a performance for airing this fall. The first-night audience, filing out of the opera house after the performance, was treated to an impromptu epilogue. A young woman in the crowd sprang up on the fountain and before long her voice was resonating across the plaza proclaiming modern woman's plight. Her speech lacked both the wit and charm of Gertrude S. and Virgil T. But it was a spunky gesture, very much in keeping with...
Some critics have argued that television has a duty, instead, to focus relentlessly on the podium, or else be guilty of misrepresenting the event. Television properly replies that speeches are only one facet of a convention, and refuses to cover the ceremonies with the hushed reverence of the BBC covering a coronation. Other critics contend that this great political rite should not reach the public filtered through rival network superstars. But men like the lone Cronkite, or Chancellor/Brinkley (who make a better matched pair than did the earlier Huntley/Brinkley), show a welcome lack of showboating. When one NBC reporter...
Surprisingly Tart. In the circumstances, the on-camera people - excepting a resolutely benign BBC royalist named Frank Gillard - were surprisingly tart. Low-profile Anchor Man Robert MacNeil thought the toasts banal even by the dull standards pertaining to events of this sort; Cooking Expert Julia Child - her usual burbling self as she nibbled and chatted with White House Chef Henry Haller - let fly publicly at the undignified quality of the showfolks' contributions; and Upstairs, Downstairs' Jean Marsh took politely dim views of everything from American vegetables to the institution of monarchy. The PBS cameras, fighting through the longueurs...
...George Weidenfeld, chairman of Weidenfeld and Nicolson, publishers: a life peerage. A Viennese-born, onetime BBC news commentator, Weidenfeld had earlier been knighted at Wilson's request in 1969, and is the publisher of Wilson's memoirs...