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...guarded but quickly won over. Some 130 acts showed up at the Arcadia Theater in Dallas to audition for a slot in the film's talent-show sequence. There was everything from dancing goldfish to a man who set his foot on fire. "No one treated it like The Gong Show," says Byrne. "No matter how outrageous or eccentric their act was, they were very sincere about it. There was a lot of heart in the performances." Byrne discovered that film can be as subtle and malleable as the tracks of a recording, which may account for the sense...
News Editor for This Issue: David S. Hilzenrath '87 Night Editors: Victoria G.T. Bassetti '86-'87 Kenneth A. Gerber '89 David S. Hilzenrath '87 Shari Rudavsky '88 Editorial Editor: Allison L. Jernow '89 Features Editor: Thomas J. Winslow '87 Copy Editor: Kenneth T. Segal '88 Photo Editor: E. J. Gong '87 Sports Editor: Geoffrey H. Simon '88 Business Editor: John P. Siracuse...
...game-show community is wary. "You don't buy audiences with huge amounts of giveaway money," contends Mark Goodson, producer of such classics as To Tell the Truth and + Password. Chuck Barris, who has made a fortune as creator of such shows as The Dating Game and The Gong Show, is not so sure. "Two-way involvement may be a way we could go in the future," he says. "I'll be in St. Tropez mulling it over...
Although the Patriotic Association of Chinese Catholics has usurped the allegiance of more than 3 million believers, a small underground church in China, holding clandestine services in private homes, has remained faithful to Rome. A hero of this remnant has been Gong Pinmei (Ignatius Kung), the bishop of Shanghai, who has been imprisoned for treason since 1955, steadfastly maintaining his loyalty to the Vatican. Xinhua, the official government news agency, last week reported that Gong, now nearly 84, had "repented" and had been paroled after agreeing to forswear any further contact with the Vatican. Gong, the news agency said...
Diplomats in Peking and observers in Rome pointed out that Gong had spurned earlier offers of release under similar conditions. Vatican officials suggested the Chinese government acted because it did not want the aging bishop to die in prison. The Vatican asked for Gong's freedom when Jaime Cardinal Sin of Manila visited Peking last year. At least twelve other Roman Catholic priests are believed to remain in Chinese prisons or labor camps...