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...Dick Breen joined the staff as a writer-producer...
Webb was impressed; Breen, just out of the Navy, had worked in New York. Breen was impressed, too. "Jack," he recalls, "behaved as if he had a Hooper rating of 28 and was in direct competition with Jack Benny." Breen moved into Webb's $30-a-month room. A little later KGO was asked to fill an empty Sunday night half hour "for a Pacific feed" (all West Coast ABC stations). Breen, who was fascinated by San Francisco's Embarcadero, put together a hard-boiled private-eye show about waterfront crime, called it Pat Novak for Hire. Webb...
...Hollywood, the Breen Office suggested that Producer Leonard Goldstein remove from his new film. Princess of the Nile, certain scenes in which Cinemactress Debra Paget performs bumps and grinds while dancing. Protested Goldstein: "The Egyptians didn't call those movements bumps and grinds. We are now arguing with the Breen Office as to what is a bump and what is a grind...
...remarkably similar to Ralph Edwards' NBC weeper, This Is Your Life. Comedian George Jessel, ABC's new man-of-all-work, tells the story in his best toastmaster style as the subject under scrutiny squirms alongside. For the premiere, Jessel took former Child Star Bobby Breen in hand, told how he climbed from cold-water flats to Hollywood fame, then became a has-been at 13, when his voice changed ("There was panic in the studio"). At show's end Bobby, now 26, sets foot on the comeback trail by singing a song (his voice...
...Screenwriter Richard (Titanic) Breen: "For the moment it is safe to say that Hamlet [in 3-D] is out of the question unless it can be staged on a roller coaster."¶ London Movie Critic Dilys Powell, reviewing Man in the Dark (TIME, April 20): "If I must be placed in the position of a firing-squad victim ... I want my eyes bandaged...