Word: films
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week's end another of Garrison's witnesses backfired. Special FBI Agent Lyndal Shaneyfelt testified that he had minutely examined the Zapruder film, as well as enlarged prints of the fatal shot that shattered Kennedy's head. Asked Defense Attorney Dymond: "Based on your examination, have you found any photographic evidence to indicate that the shots that hit President Kennedy came from any direction other than his right rear?" Replied Shaneyfelt...
...Weekend, French Film Maker Jean-Luc Godard foresees the end of the world as an immense traffic jam. Stanley Kubrick sees the men of 2001 as murder victims of a machine they have made more clever than themselves...
What is commonly called "the new permissiveness" has now moved from the worlds of film and fashion into the areas of marketing and advertising. Nudity in advertising is commonplace, along with the single entendre. Highly personal products, which used to be tucked away in the back pages of tacky magazines and in the back rooms of drugstores, have moved right out front...
...elder Skouras emigrated from Greece in 1910, parlayed a string of theaters into eventual control of one of the biggest film studios. It was Spyros the younger who decided that the family's business future is on the high seas rather than on the Hollywood film lots. He is a model of the well-modulated executive. His father, by contrast, still broadcasts endless orders and advice in his own peculiar Greco-American, calling businessmen and most other people "big sots"-his way of saying big shots. He remains chairman of 20th Century-Fox, but the post is largely honorific...
Henry G. Saperstein, the film's executive producer, once boasted, "We thought of several endings, decided against the Mary Poppins type or the heroic windup of a John Wayne melodrama." They decided, in fact, on no ending at all, as if Director John Boorman had got weary of all that footage of sea, sand and sunsets and decided arbitrarily to fade...