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...advertising, overall, in the three-hour prime-time stretch. The networks say that they will not cram in more. One reason: advertisers believe that the more commercials a viewer is subjected to, the less attention he pays. Says Louis Dorkin, senior vice president of the Dancer-Fitzgerald-Sample agency: "Stations can put on what they choose. But we can take our money and put it elsewhere." Viewers can do their share by changing channels, or simply switching...
...John Fitzgerald Kennedy Library on Boston's Columbia Point yesterday, the huge white and black monument to the nation's 35th President was mostly empty, as it is most days, with only a few more visitors than usual, the director said...
...jungle. To raise the necessary capital to back his production, he decides to cash in on the rubber boom by taking a steamship to virgin tracts of jungle, carrying it a mile overland to an otherwise inaccessible river. The real Fitzcarraldo (so named because the natives could not pronounce Fitzgerald) cut a 20-ton steamship into 15 pieces to accomplish his made task. Herzog, in his reenactment, does not regard that as enough of a challenge, opting to haul a 300-ton steamship in one piece...
...Maurice Fitzgerald...
...also marks the 78th anniversary of Bloomsday, June 16, 1904, the day commemorated in Ulysses and a sacred date on the calendar of all Joyceans. Some 550 scholars assembled then for the eighth international James Joyce symposium. The President of Ireland, Patrick Hillery, and the mayor of Dublin, Alexis Fitzgerald, were on hand for official ceremonies; scores of people in turn-of-the-century costumes took to the streets to act out scenes from the novel. One who declined an invitation to join in the fun was Joyce's grandson Stephen, who sent his regrets from Paris. Wherever...