Word: cameraful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Producer of the new school show is WRCA-TV's Patricia Farrar, 26, who gets up at 3 a.m. to shepherd her crew through a dry run at 4:45 before the live-camera lesson. Wearily, she alibis the rooster-rousing hour: 1) nothing else is programmed at 6:30, so the unsponsored show costs the station no revenue; and 2) many Puerto Ricans have jobs that get them up early or keep them out late. Also in the show's favor: 80% of New York's Puerto Rican families own television sets...
...hope of catching the Jekyll-Hyde transformation before it gets on-camera. few show's rely solely on their "people getters." They have their own interviews, their own exhaustive questionnaires. Some of them even require references. Diane, who supplies contestants for both Dotto and Haggis Baggis (on a regular retainer) and also sends a few to Lucky Partner and Name That Tune (which pay by the head), conducts her own interviews-in-depth. She is opposed to the popular practice of giving written tests before screening contestants. "Anyone can look bad on written questions," says she. "And anyway, what...
Tough Damn Job. From this moment on, Paar is assured, professional, unfaltering. During each station break, after every commercial, whenever he is off camera, he finds a moment to lean over to chat with a guest, give instructions to an assistant director, and check the time schedule. The peering cameras, the prodding teleprompters, the signaling technicians seem not to bother him; he is at home. With Jack Douglas, head writer of his show, whom he puts on as a guest from time to time, he ad libs quickly and surely. With other guests, he is gentle, humble, anxious...
Deus ex Machina. His wartime success got Jack a job in Hollywood shortly after he came home. RKO and later 20th Century-Fox put him under contract but rarely got around to putting him in front of a camera (he did once play opposite an unheard-of starlet named Marilyn Monroe). In 1947 he was hired as the summer replacement on NBC-Radio's Jack Benny Show. His fresh, natural style was a success, and in the fall American Tobacco put the Jack Paar Show on the air on ABC. It lasted until Christmas Eve. In his radio days...
...striking as the film is visually, Producer Disney cannot resist gilding it with sentiment. Twelve times in the past ten years he has sent teams of crack camera crews into the world's boondocks to record the behavior of lesser-known animals and plants. Twelve times, e.g., in The Living Desert, The Vanishing Prairie, the teams have returned with trunkloads of painstakingly gathered film, much of it unique. And twelve times Disney has taken the film and glued onto it a cloying narration and a sound track that often seems loudly superfluous. Even as the lemmings plunge crazily toward...