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...satisfy insatiable TV they are selling off rights to more and more recent films. Movies fill prime time five nights a week and will soon fill six. After ABC bought rights to Columbia's The Bridge on the River Kwai for $2,000,000 and scored a ratings blitz, the networks were convinced, if they had had any doubt before. Within days, three studios had been paid $92,500,000 for 118 films. Among them was 20th Century-Fox's Cleopatra, perhaps the most wildly unbusinesslike spectacular ever produced. Originally budgeted for $2,000,000, it wound...
...Harris reported afterward that it had proved a particularly injurious factor for the Democrats nonetheless). He took a savage swipe at Nixon, thereby giving the "chronic campaigner" a boost that may find its way into the history books. And, in denying that he had been planning a last-minute blitz of twelve to 15 states, Johnson advertised his lack of veracity to millions who were even then preparing for his visit...
...whiz-bang windup to the 1966 campaign. For more than a week beforehand, White House officials had been filtering out information about an electioneering itinerary that would have allowed the President barely enough time in Washington to change his socks before bounding off on a "Boston-to-Austin" barnstorming blitz through more than a dozen states...
...footer with a long jaw and a penchant for exposing it, Safetyman Wilson is the defensive captain, cheer leader ("He's an inspirational player," says Winner), and key man in a blitz happy defense that is the main reason the Cards lead the league...
Tony Hendra was born in London in an air raid during the German blitz, and his first toy was a piece of shrapnel that landed in his cradle. Nic Ullett, also born in London, was soon evacuated to the countryside, where he was given the privileges of living in a corrugated-iron hut and attending school with six other boys and 65 girls. By the time the two of them met a couple of decades later at Cambridge, their thoughts had somehow acquired a satirical hue. Written down, polished, and delivered onstage with maniacal precision, their reflections on the state...