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...onslaught. Now it is not unreasonable to suppose that a tense little movie could be made out of the struggle between the bugs and the military-scientific complex charged with exterminating them. Unfortunately, no one seems to want to make tense little movies any more, least of all Irwin Allen, who has prospered with the likes of The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno, in which potentially amusing premises were so heavily encrusted with "human interest" subplots that they sank of their own weight...
...most striking thing illustrated by the show is how far behind photography?meaning the photographs Szarkowski designates as "serious"?has left its old role as witness to public events. Not one picture in the exhibition, except for an exquisitely formal-looking image of a fire in Minneapolis by Irwin B. Klein, looks in any way like a news photo. This must seem strange at first, since the past 20 years have been the most photographed in history. Everything that happened, one might suppose, happened before a camera; there has never been anything like the sheer bulk of visual documentation...
Every summer the Irwin Cobb Memorial Tournament is played at Paxton Park. One year professional Bob Goalby, a winner of the Masters, won the tournament. Another touring star, Jay Haas, has also played in the event. Cobb himself was a well-known humorist from Paducah...
...machinery for this mammoth undertaking was set in motion two years ago, when the idea for Holocaust occurred to NBC Programmer Irwin Segelstein. The project was assigned to Titus Productions, headed by Berger and his partner Herbert Brodkin (The Defenders, The Missiles of October). Titus' main asset was Writer Gerald Green, 56, best known for his novel The Last Angry Man. Long absorbed by the plight of Jews during the war, Green had already written two books on the subject...
...Irwin Shaw (Beggarman, Thief), after complimenting himself on understanding women: "I'll tell you another writer who was ahead of his time on women. Shakespeare. Look at Rosalind, Portia. His women were key figures. Lady Macbeth was the Bella Abzug...