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...like the other four--let no humor find its way into the filming, once the real work had begun. Often, between takes, he reached for the bottle of burbon, took a gulp, gargled with it and then swallowed it down: all without comment from him or anyone else. (The bourbon was cheap and awful; Prophetic Pictures' production budget is $2000 -- most of which goes for minimal salaries and prop rentals--so there is little room for extravagant extra expenses.) While Tommy worked, drank, worked, looked over his script, drank, no one spoke. Eric and Tim might say something about technical...

Author: By Frank Rich, | Title: The Ghosts of New Hampshire | 4/10/1969 | See Source »

Besides, I'm an existentialist (gulp!). Each morning I roll out and open the bedroom door and find a big yellow puddle in between me and the bathroom. It is this--not the fondling, not the playing of tricks, not the 'stand up; roll over, boy"--that most frequently causes the vectors of your life and the dog's to intersect. That is to say, that in terms of existential moments you get to know the dog by what it leaves behind...

Author: By John G. Short, | Title: Two Short Essays | 4/7/1969 | See Source »

...orbiting spacecraft are scheduled to make soft landings on the surface of the planet. In a search for any obvious evidence of life, TV cameras aboard the landers will take pictures of the immediate surroundings. Delicate instruments will sniff and analyze the atmosphere at ground level. Mechanical devices will gulp up, digest and chemically analyze Martian soil for clues to life. In their findings, relayed back to Earth by radio, man may find the exciting evidence that life exists elsewhere in the universe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Planetary Exploration: Looking for Life | 3/7/1969 | See Source »

...bristle at each other even as they foil a gold heist. A mutually respectful, but hostile, black-white relationship is a departure for TV "realism." Whether it can be made as durable as the warm, three-year-long buddyship of I Spy's Bill Cosby and Robert Gulp is questionable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Programs: The New Season (Contd.) | 10/4/1968 | See Source »

...Peyton Place (pop. approx. 10,000), the first black will be a neurosurgeon. In NBC's I Spy, Bob Gulp loves his way round the world, while Co-star Bill Cosby enjoys only an occasional clinch-with a black girl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Programming: Black on the Channels | 5/24/1968 | See Source »

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