Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...creates it." Last week Funnyman Paar, whom critics have long accused of living in winter off the nut he stores up in summer, was awash in the unrehearsed confusion of a sprawling, winter-weight marathon ballyhooed by NBC as the "new" Tonight. Contorting his rubber-band lips around his familiar pipestem and some spottily diverting japes, neat, dumpling-cheeked Jack Paar, 39, glibly scared up a little offbeat fun and flapdoodle-something that the gossipists who succeeded Kovacs and Steve Allen were notably unable to do. Despite first-week jitters, technical flaps, occasional lapses into tedium, and a mummer...
...like being made dog editor." City editors too often agree. Thus, on a big local-business story such as a strike or a proxy fight, the cityside reporter who can be trusted to turn in sharp, dramatic copy is almost certain to get the assignment over a specialist familiar with the issues...
Heavenly Echoes of My Fair Lady (George Feyer, pianist; Vox LP). Pianist Feyer gives the familiar songs the treatment they might have received from such squares as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff. Frédéric FrançoisChopin, Giuseppe Verdi, e.g., Get Me to the Church on Time as a victory march from a Verdi opera. One of the cleverest parodies since Alex Templeton took Johann Sebastian Bach to town...
...uproar underscored one of TV's growing headaches: it is constantly caught in the middle by the slings and arrows of outraged viewers-individuals and organized groups. This is an occupational hazard long familiar to Hollywood, which learned how sensitive all kinds of minorities can be to slurs, real or imagined. An avalanche of mail (NBC alone gets 3,000,000 letters a year) has convinced network executives that TV, because it shares the privacy of the viewer's home, seems to give offense and draw abuse even more readily...
Director and Co-Writer Leo McCarey told this tremulous tale once before in 1939 (Charles Boyer v. Irene Dunne). On this familiar old heart-wrenching ground, Cinemanipulator McCarey, whose heart is as big as a whale's, carefully swings the plot pendulum-like between gladness and sadness. Cary and Deborah agree to rid themselves of their previous encumbrances, make a date to meet again after six months devoted to finding themselves (she was once a singer; he painted). But on the day of their reunion, a screech of brakes is heard offscreen, and next thing Deborah is a cripple...