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Hands on the Wheel. Only the rules had changed. Instead of appearing "in every scene possible," as her old scriptwriters had her do, Shirley merely introduced and narrated Madame le Prince de Beaumont's enduring moral fable, Beauty and the Beast-the beginning of a close-to-surefire series of fairy tales prepared for Temple and TV by Lawyer-turned-Producer Henry (Peter Pan) Jaffe...
...more than one way to kill a cat. The grimalkin of racial prejudice may choke on warm milk as easily as succumb to a brickbat. Unfortunately the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination seems to believe it has, in the Fair Educational Practices Act, the only weapon which can banish the beast. In ordering Harvard to stop requesting photographs with freshman application forms, it serves the letter, but not the ultimate purpose, of the law it seeks to enforce...
Once upon a time. TV worried about the shortage of good writers. Now producers worry about the shortage of good horses: they are shooting so many westerns that Hollywood stables can hardly keep up with their bookings ($10 a day for an "extra" horse, $25 minimum for a beast with a role). This shift in concern was as telling a portent as any last week when television rounded the bend of its 1957-58 season. It is a season in which network advertisers are spending more than ever-about $660 million a year-to woo the largest audience...
...white and perfect. Her mouth is delicate, and her smile almost too exquisitely sweet. Her eyes change, as the light changes, from blue to grey to green, and are unusually large; when she smiles, they brim with tenderness and a kind of luminous spirituality that seems to tame the beast and inspire the best in men. Says a hardbitten, hard-smitten Hollywood producer: "It is the face of a madonna...
...stern of an edgy steer was solved by a .50-cal. carbondioxide-powered rifle remodeled to fire a needle-nosed cartridge containing the tranquilizer. Accurate up to 50 yds., the needle whumps about an inch into the steer's rump and carbon-dioxide gas forces happiness into the beast. Cost...