Word: killjoys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...major television networks coolly tuned out Ben Casey and Dr. Kildare in 1966. But the medical fellow they really wanted to get rid of-and could not -is a real-life Dr. Killjoy by the name of Donald Frederickson. Dr. Frederickson is a 34-year-old public-health official who began campaigning two years ago to change the TV image of cigarettes. Among his proposals: "admired characters" like Johnny Carson should stop smoking on camera, and TV series heroes should decline cigarettes offered them during climactic scenes. That, said Frederickson, might help dissuade the 4,000 young Americans who begin...
...cannot rattle Actor March, who after a career of 33 years and 65 films stands almost without rival as a creative cinemactor. But the director thoroughly demoralizes Actor Gazzara-at best a humorless performer, he seems in this role to think of himself as a sort of galling Dr. Killjoy. Disk Jockey Dick Clark, who plays an intern in The Young Doctors, reads the lines with his usual fishy smile and oily mikeside manner. He obviously imagines that a medical man is just another kind of medicine man. that a doctor is no more than a slipped-disk jockey...