Word: formulas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CAPTAIN NICE (NBC, 8:30-9 p.m.). More of the same-only now it's a Milquetoast police-department chemist named Carter Nash (William Daniels), who turns into a superhuman crime fighter after drinking a secret formula. Premiere...
...with racing, outside of the first and last race sequences. One could also imagine Arthur saying, "Racing car drivers lead fascinating lives. Let's give the public the low-down on those fascinating racing car drivers"--except that the characters are conventional types who act according to formula. Their problems have been explored well enough on daytime television...
...Formula here is the key word. Back in the '30's, Howard Hawks made a fishing picture called Tiger Shark which, for a "B" picture, was a box-office hit. Legend has it hthat soon afterwards, the head of Warner Brothers' "B" picture unit went to his writers saying, "Write me Tiger Shark with a circus setting" or "Do Tiger Shark with airplanes." Hollywood knew that character and plot was the necessary evil that turned the uncommercial documentary into fairytale fiction and potential box-office gold. They also knew that a popular plot could be used again and again...
Hollywood hasn't changed much in 30 years, and Grand Prix is pure formula scenes of racing car driving are alternated with scenes of the drivers' personal lives, culminating in a climactic last race which neatly resolves the conflicts of both the professional (who wins the championship) and personal elements in the script...
Moreover, many banks had lent long but had borrowed short - a classic formula for financial woe. Altogether $18.6 billion of their $194.4 billion total deposits were in the form of short-term certificates of deposit, and many holders of "C.D.s" were cashing them in to draw fatter interest elsewhere. The dismal prospect was that deposits would continue to decline, while in mid-September the banks would be hit by corporations for more loans to finance quarterly tax payments. If the banks turned them down, the corporations would start a run on their deposits...