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Some of the biggest U.S. dailies still carry mastheads whose fusty design and pompous preachments seem unchanged since reporters wore celluloid collars. The Baltimore Sun's front page has advocated LIGHT FOR ALL since 1840, 41 years before the city was electrified. Along with the Hearst emblem, an eagle roosting on a starred shield, the San Francisco Examiner clings loyally to the pet name-THE MONARCH OF THE DAILIES-bestowed on it by the Chief 74 years...
Long-term Recall. The polysyllables of David Susskind, for example, pooled on the courtroom floor, spread to the walls and up to the ceiling, and held the committee spielbound for 210 minutes. In one triple metaphor, he summarized television drama as "celluloid sausage coming down the pike by the ream." Without referring to his own indifferent and unoriginal shows, Susskind estimated that TV as a whole had become "90% travesty, a gigantic comic strip, a huge ho-hum. I tremble for TV as a professional practitioner-as a father-as a citizen...
...hell language that puts the essence of his conservatism in metaphors of the man in the street. He talks neither up nor down to his audiences: he talks to them with obvious sincerity, and in so doing demolishes the stereotype of the conservative as the square in the Celluloid collar. For even his political opponents agree that...
Apart from the celluloid clichés, there is a legitimate drama to the whole monstrous crime, and Uris captures some of it. Unfortunately, the scale of racial mass murder dwarfs the individual. The enormity of horror resembles a cataclysm of nature like an earthquake or a typhoon, and the inequity of the struggle smothers the tragic sense, which demands a more equal conflict in which the hero duels with himself, with another man or with God. Man's fate as it unfolds in Mila 18 contains the hound-after-fox emotions of the chase and the kill, sometimes...
Parrish (Warner) is the celluloid name for Troy (Surfside 6) Donahue, who has a wheatfield of golden hair, ripply pectoral muscles and a pair of sapphire-tinted eyes -in a word, a dreamboat who by his own tally is "No. 1 on the fan mail list at the studio and No. 2 or 3 in all of Hollywood right now." Troy plays the part, as the ads put it, of an "intruder in Connecticut's Million-Dollar Mile," which sounds like moneyed exurbia and turns out to be rich tobacco country in the Connecticut River Valley...