Word: dubbing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Downey also married a model named Elsie (who appears with their two children in Greaser's Palace). He appropriated his wife's fees for TV commercials in order to finance his first movie, Babo '73. "I had to dub all the voices myself on that one," Downey recalls. One day he even shot without film because he was too embarrassed to tell the actors that money...
...happenings in his native Prague last week. He would probably have seen both captor and captives as almost equally powerless. The captor, in this instance, was Party Leader Gustav Husák, who has repeatedly vowed since taking power in 1969 that supporters of ousted Reformer Alexander Dubček would not be put on trial for their roles in Prague's short-lived "springtime of freedom," which was crushed by the Soviet-led invasion of August 1968. His promise carried a special conviction because Husák had spent nine years in Communist prisons during the 1950s...
Even so, the most significant trials so far of Dubček's supporters took place in Prague last week-while Husák was vacationing in the Soviet Union. The 13 defendants, who were jailed months ago, were not tried on charges dating from the Dubček era. Instead, most were accused of more recent subversion. Their specific offense: distributing leaflets before the 1971 national elections that reminded citizens of their constitutional right to cross out names on the one-party list of candidates. Yet the real aim of the trial was obviously to intimidate Dub...
...fend off demands from hard-liners that he try the political leaders of the Prague spring. Two leading "ultras" are Vasil Bilák and Alois Indra, the Soviets' principal collaborators during the Warsaw Pact occupation of Czechoslovakia. Bilák and Indra reportedly favor punishing even Dubček, who lives quietly in Bratislava. He is in charge of the motor pool for the Forest Administration...
Ever since 1950, the Communist government in Prague has steadfastly refused to let the Vatican appoint bishops in Czechoslovakia. The Dubček regime opened negotiations with the Holy See in 1968, but they were abruptly suspended after the Soviet invasion and Dubček's fall. Since then, the country's prelates have been dying off without being replaced. The death of two Czechoslovak bishops last month leaves only one of the country's twelve dioceses in the hands of a Vatican appointee...