Word: cheapo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years since, Arledge and Salant have come to exemplify the two poles of what network news programs want to do most: excite or inform. ABC's World News To night has got consistently sharper. Arledge demands and gets inventive technology. ABC, once el cheapo of the networks (it used to be said that ABC was the last to arrive at the scene and the first to leave), now spends good money to get good people. Arledge hired Richard Wald (once head of NBC News) to run his news operation, a job that Wald defines as "calming the process down...
Some of those old el cheapo pictures were, in the last analysis, more entertaining than this rather too impeccable film...
Arledge goes first-class. Given a big news budget (ABC is no longer the cheapo among network news operations), he has recently hired such good people as Av Westin, Cassie Mackin, Sander Vanocur. Impatient with all the "back to New York" cues between items, Arledge is setting up what he calls "regional anchors." The Middle East anchorman and his correspondents pass the story along from one to another like Tinker to Evers to Chance, and talk endlessly above a shifting kaleidoscope of film, whose relevance is not always explained. Looking at the new ABC Evening News these days...
...conjunction of a sleazy "property" and the most curious and enigmatic criminal case of recent years had to excite some schlockmeister, and so we have El Cheapo Production's version of the book to contend with. The picture, featuring Judith-Marie Bergan, started out aiming for the coveted X rating, essential to success in the pornfields, then raised its sights. Its more graphically depicted sexual grapplings went into the trim barrel, an R rating was obtained, and it is no longer necessary to sneak off to some cinematic red-light district to see the film...
...Thursday the team arrived in New York, five of the Crimson fencers and myself went to a cheapo-deluxe porno double feature which matched "A Hard Man's Good to Find" and "Little Miss Innocent." Well, "A Hard Man" could well be re-titled "Good Porno is Hard to Find" because the film--shot, I'm convinced, on a 98-cent budget with Bell and Howell N-14 movie camera--consisted entirely of one man (middle aged, paunchy, inconsequential) lapping a variety of women with the world's longest tongue, mostly in the ears and on the eyebrows...