Word: howard
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Network, a creation of Paddy Chayefsky (writer) and Howard Gottfried (producer), won't settle for that. In the production notes for the film, Gottfried says, "our film deals with the destruction of the individual and traditional ideals through a system dedicated to conformity, standardization, and the least common denominator." Network has intellectual pretensions. Yet it can't get away with them...
...Girl Friday. I feel that I should include at least one Hollywood comedy whose perspective is ultimately uncritical, since these are among my favorite types, and this Howard Hawks film about journalism is one of the best of the genre. Starring Cary Grant and Rosalind Russel, the film sets up an unresolveable conflict and proceeds to resolve it romantically (though at the cost of turning Russell into "one of the boys.") Nevertheless, the film's hysterical pace betrays its sensitivity to real emotional conflicts, as well as Hawk's attachment to the male professional communities of irrational shared value which...
Robin Hood, with Shakespeare's Macbeth will be presented by the Boston Shakespeare Company. Robin Hood will be based on the Howard Pyle stories, and play on Friday and Saturday at 8. Macbeth is showing Thursdays at 8. Both dramas are at the Theatre, corner of Berkeley and Marlborough Streets...
...voices of Howard Cosell, Alex Karras, and Keith Jackson seem to echo about the room; my mouth waters as I rush for the T.V. in hopes of catching the last ten minutes of Candlepins for Cash...
...Republican side, the favorite to succeed the retired Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania as minority leader is Michigan's Robert Griffin, 53, one of Gerald Ford's closest allies. Griffin might be challenged by Tennessee's Howard Baker. Another Ford ally is in line to succeed Griffin as minority whip: the now familiar Senator from Kansas, Robert Dole...