Word: cin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cinéma Verité. "I may not be the best adman in the country," says the rumpled, easy-mannered Rafshoon, "but I am the foremost authority on Jimmy Carter in terms of advertising and how it best suits him." The collaboration between the two goes back to 1966, when Rafshoon handled Carter's unsuccessful race for the Georgia Governor's mansion. This year, with the aid of just two writers, two airtime buyers and a tiny office staff, Rafshoon waged a year-long ad blitz in 38 states to win his man the Democratic nomination, preparing...
...Kehoe (Mason/Charter; $9.95), explores Grand Rapids, Minn., and Lancaster, Calif., for fragments of the true Judy. The authors emerge with gossip about Frances Gumm, whose vaudeville father was a homosexual and whose mother sought vicarious recognition in her child star. For Dahl and Kehoe The Wizard of Oz is cinéma à clef; the Dorothy who sang Over the Rainbow was the actress herself. "Frances never stopped trying to get home," they burble in a style that Rona Barrett might envy. Young Judy covers only the childhood of Garland's 47-year-long life and is only about...
...Date Inn On Base Opp Pitcher 714 April 4 1 2 Cin Billingham
Enlarging her niche in film history, Gloria Swanson presided in Paris last week over a salute to her career at Henri Langlois' hallowed Cinémathèque Française. The first night coincided with Gloria's 75th birthday, a statistic proved ridiculous when she appeared at the birthday party in a slinky blue and green diagonally striped gown. After blowing out the candles on her cake, Chicago-born Swanson told the crowd assembled at the cinema museum that she had always felt at home in France. Why? "Because with my Swedish ancestors I surely have...
...film. What lifts The Fighters out of the special-interest category is the first hour of documentary on the preparations for the match. The fighters, the promoters, the managers, the hangers-on, all speak a kind of spiked Odets chatter that makes the movie look and sound like a cinéma vérité replay of Body and Soul. Greaves has a quick eye and an obvious affection for the more flamboyant personalities behind the sport. A reporter at a swanky press reception rather tentatively badgers Promoter Jack Kent Cooke about the high cost of fight tickets. "Well...