Word: director
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...these things have happened to William Saroyan's The Time of Your Life, first performed 30 years ago and currently revived with care, affection and excellence by Director John Hirsch and the Lincoln Center Repertory Company. In the context of 1969, the play has been transformed in several fascinating ways. What baffled audiences in 1939 is quite clear now. In retrospect, The Time of Your Life is revealed as a kind of prophecy, as well as play, prefiguring changing dramatic trends and the skeptical questioning of American values...
...Here. Oilman has returned to his old job at the San Diego station. "I came back from the trial prepared to take the consequences," he says, "prepared to be fired, but it's been two and a half weeks now and nothing has happened. I told the news director at the station that I didn't think that what I had done would affect my work." Despite criticism from his colleagues, Oilman adds: "I would do it all over again...
...what was previously a rural mail-order house swiftly expanded into retail stores, insurance and financing. One of Wood's wisest moves was pioneering an employee profit-sharing plan that now owns 22% of the company's stock. He retired in 1954 but remained as a director until last year, helping to oversee the company that he built into an $8 billion-a-year colossus...
Barrage of Sights. What Sesame Street does, blatantly and unashamedly, is take full advantage of what children like best about TV. "Face it-kids love commercials," explains Joan Ganz Cooney, executive director of NET's Children's Television Workshop. "Their visual impact is way ahead of everything else seen on television; they are clever, and they tell a simple, self-contained story." Instead of cornflakes and Kleenex, Sesame Street sells the alphabet, numbers, ideas and concepts in commercial form. Each program contains a dozen or more 12- to 90-second spots, many repeated during the program to boost...
...though pursued by demons, and he wins a crack at an Olympic championship. Along the way he wrangles with his coach (Gene Hackman), makes the usual number of enemies, and sleeps with a couple of girls, one disadvantaged and one super-sleek (Camilla Sparv). A routine routine, but Director Michael Ritchie freshens up his first film with some electrifying camera work. The exhilarating danger of downhill racing is perfectly portrayed with footage shot by Pro Skier Joe Jay Jalbert, who held a camera in his hands instead of poles. Gene Hackman has just the right combination of brio...