Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...movies. CBS throws That's Entertainment!, surefire nostalgia fare, into the Beacon Hill breach on Nov. 18. Meantime, the permanently disaffected will be found over at the independent channels, gnarled fingers twiddling the dial in hopes of glimpsing Matt Dillon, Chief Ironsides and the rest of that old gang of theirs. On the whole it is a slightly better deal than being placed on an ice floe when your usefulness as a consumer has diminished...
Died. Phillips H. Lord, 73, writer, producer and sometime actor who created Seth Parker's Singing School, Gang Busters, and other celebrated radio shows of the 1930s and '40s; of myasthenia gravis; in Ellsworth, Me. Drawing on yarns about simple folk and moral rectitude that he heard from his grandfather, a voluble old sea captain, Lord fashioned Seth Parker out of pure homespun, introduced him in 1927, soon had an audience of 10 million. For the later, long-running (nine years) Gang Busters, he got permission from J. Edgar Hoover to use stories based on FBI files...
...Russo II, and it is a first play of some consequence. The reunion is in a bar. The hero is Fred Santoro (Gabriel Dell), whose career and fame resemble Frank Sinatra's. He and his henchman (George Pollock) drift into a haunt that Santoro shared with a gang of cronies (mostly Hoboken, N.J., Italian-Americans) some 20 years before...
Biggie is sneeringly bitter about Fred's deserting him on the way to the big time. Each of the old gang reveals himself to be a sycophant, a drunk or a cynic, yet touchingly human. Each has an aria-styled monologue to show how his spirit has been charred by life. Fred's is the most melodramatic: he tells of how his father forced him, as an adolescent, to spy on his mother and her suspected lover from a fire escape...
...America ravaged and torn by the nuclear warheads of the Third World War. The survivors, either alone (solos) or in marauding groups (roverpaks), eke out a savage existence on the crater-ridden surface, foraging for canned food and gang-raping the remaining females. Aiding them in their search for food and sex are telepathic dogs, equal in intelligence to humans. Below the surface, in cavernous air-raid shelters, are the remains of Middle America, existing in ante-bellum middle class splendor. Ellison's novella, and the film, focus on the adventures of a young solo named Vic and his telepathic...