Word: fadeouts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...asks Rains, "can you ask me to understand the extermination of men, women and innocent children in ______?" For an odd moment the sound went off. Rains's lips moved, but no words came. The missing words: "gas ovens." The show's sponsor, who insisted on the fadeout in sound: the American Gas Association, which supplies some 95% of the gas used in U.S. kitchen ranges...
...industry. It offers a notable addition to the stream-of-consciousness technique ("If I left now, with no notice, they'd be in a terrible mess' ... Just thinking about it, he could hear Jack Reynolds' ulcer dripping on the floor"), winds up with the same old fadeout: hero and buddy in a rose-covered ad agency of their...
Glorious Moment. Stars from the San Francisco or Metropolitan Opera appear from time to time in the audience, occasionally join in an aria or two. So far, none has provided the hoped-for Hollywood fadeout to the Bocce story by discovering a great new singer. But the Bocce has had at least one glorious moment: five years ago, with 3,300 tickets sold for a Pacific Opera performance of Pagliacci, Tenor Ernest Lawrence phoned to say he was too sick to sing Canio. Two hours before curtain time, Director Arturo Casiglia reached Bocce Tenor Arthur Peters, zipped him into...
...Marie looks distressed, but maintains her maiden faith. Sure enough, everything turns out all right: Fort Sumter is shot up, Elizabeth Taylor goes completely insane, Atlanta is burned again (it looked hotter in Gone With the Wind), Clift gets wounded, Lincoln is assassinated, and finally there is a fond fadeout between Clift and Eva Marie...
...night in bed she asks him about his jealousy, discovers that he murdered her previous husband, always thought to have been a suicide, because he could not stand the thought of any other man being near her. Fadeout, with the camera on the killer's gleaming eyes, and a long, dark night ahead...