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Although Carnovsky is not a large man (5 ft. 9 in., 165 Ibs.) he dominates the stage at Stratford with such extraordinary passion that the rest of the cast seems physically small by comparison. "I grew up with an inherited sense of the tragic, a sense of loss," he says. Whatever sense of tragedy he may have got from his impoverished childhood in St. Louis, he must feel a sense of high achievement in Connecticut. For night after night he sends his Stratford audiences home in tears...
...Paul Henning (creator of last season's most popular TV show - Beverly Hillbillies'), Reginald Rose (The Defenders), Rod Serling (Twilight Zone) and Nat Hiken (Car 54). All, like Silliphant, have incorporated themselves in one way or another and all of them have incomes that are astronomical by comparison with the av erage established TV writer's take of about $20,000 a year. Silliphant will not even consider writing an hour-long script for less than $10,000 (although he magnanimously charges his own com pany only $5,000 per script). But the real money comes from...
Ghostly Feet. In scope and detail, Foot's Bevan bears comparison with Churchill's Memoirs: the central figure is set against a wide and populous political landscape; biography becomes history. Churchill, of course, is all grandeur and the tragedy of nations; Bevan was a class warrior, and his finest hour, like Socialism's, was never to come. But as near as may be-though he has been dead three years-this is Sevan's own brief. It is a sort of ghost-written book, with Foot as ghost, for Biographer Foot was not only a close...
Chris Reaske, as a farmer, and Thom Babe, the pastor, shone like bright alpha stars in comparison, however, and made it possible for the leads to work. Reaske's storming over the injustice he suffered in a slander case was controlled but believable; unfortunately the incident had little to do with the main plot of the play...
...documentary sequences, it would have been nearly impossible for Jacopetti not to have made an interesting movie out of them. Almost all of them are bizarre or shocking or pathetic in themselves. Those sections which fall within the normal range of experience are made to seem extraordinary by comparison. For example, shots of middle-aged women trying desperately to lose weight in a Vic Tanny gymnasium are preceded by films of a New Guinea tribe where the prettiest women are shut in cages and fattened to 270 pounds, after which they join the headman's harem...