Word: impacting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After the Hollywood press preview, Producer Selznick stood in the lobby, scanning the faces of the "toughest audience in the world" with as much eagerness as any tyro at his own first play. Most of them were dabbing their eyes, and for those who were not the impact of the picture was too powerful to talk about. Said Selznick of Gone With the Wind: "At noon I think it's divine, at midnight I think it's lousy. Sometimes I think it's the greatest picture ever made. But if it's only a great picture...
...Glenn, now 62 and the senior Senator from Ohio, is running for the Democratic presidential nomination. Never before has a major candidate been featured (and favorably, at that) in a big-budget Hollywood film released just as the election season warms up. Three weeks before the picture premieres, the impact of such a rousing send-off is already being debated from the corridors of Washington to the commissaries of Hollywood...
Glenn, who has not yet seen the film, dismissed an early draft of the script given to him by NASA as "Laurel and Hardy in space," but now he studiously refrains from speculating on the movie's impact. "It's out of my control," he says with a shrug. Glenn nonetheless appreciates the value of his image, film or no film. He is absenting himself from the gala opening of The Right Stuff in Washington on Oct. 16, evidently recognizing that it would be unseemly to exploit the movie so blatantly. After all, it would just...
...late, however, American scholars and the American public seem more ready for a reckoning. The reappraisal with perhaps the greatest potential for emotional impact is a 13-hour documentary series, Viet Nam: A Television History, to air starting next week on the Public Broadcasting Service. (One episode will also be shown this Friday by ABC News, which donated $50,000 to the project in 1978.) The ambitious series was produced by PBS's Boston affiliate, WGBH, in conjunction with Britain's Central Independent Television and France's Antenne 2. Assembled by a multinational team that focused...
There are shortcomings. The series gives glancing attention to the destructive American impact in South Viet Nam: corruption, prostitution, an overheated and dependent economy. The first twelve shows offer almost no impression of life in North Viet Nam or of what the Communists planned to impose on the South. As usual, the U.S. suffers for being an open society: there is almost no film or discussion of Soviet military activity, and the footage supplied by Hanoi often seems sanitized; while most of the Americans who are interviewed are thoughtful, there is no flicker of self-criticism among the people interviewed...