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...major broadcast networks announce their schedules for next fall. Like all things televisual, the upfronts are a little bit about art and a lot about money. More important, they're a heartfelt reminder of the really important folks that all the actors, writers, producers and executives of that crazy Hollowood dream factory actually live to serve...
DIED. Bernard Hollowood, 70, editor of the British humor magazine Punch from 1957 to 1968, who expanded its format to include political and social commentary; of a brain hemorrhage; in Guildford, England. Hollowood, whose editorials criticized U.S. involvement in Viet Nam and urged Britain's entry into the European Community, once said: "Nobody on earth can read exclusively funny articles without getting weary...
Neither Right nor Left. Some observers feel that as a cartoonist, Scarfe exhibits an almost fatal flaw: they argue that he lacks moral discrimination. "A great talent," says Punch Editor Bernard Hollowood, "but he's too much concerned with nostrils, nipples and navels." Scarfe could reply that his critics are too cocksure of their own politics and resent his lack of dogma. "I try to avoid any political bias in my cartoons," says Scarfe, who does indeed heap abuse on every shade of opinion. "I'm neither for the right nor for the left. I simply must deride...
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