Word: macnamara
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Patty (Maggie MacNamara): "Really, you men! You just don't know how to sew buttons on coats! Vickie's all right and is my roommate, but gosh, honestly, do you plan to seduce me? I mean don't you think a girl should worry about her virtue...
...liver has money and fame. Brendan has started a novel about Dublin, but, he says, "I can't get on with it with all this blanking success." Meanwhile, since his Borstal Boy was banned as "obscene" by the Irish government, he strides about bellowing (to the tune of MacNamara's Band...
Secrets of Life (Buena Vista), like all the rest of Walt Disney's nature films, is everything the eye could wish, but rather more than the ear can bear. The music sounds like a sneak attack on Debussy by MacNamara's band, and the commentary reads like a TV pitch for nature's way, spelled backwards. Yet across the screen there moves in lustrous color a beautifully photographed freak show. At its best, it is popular science at not very far from its best...
With apologies and acknowledgments to he composer of MacNamara's Band, this seems to show how things are going in God's Own Country...
...MacNamara claims that every big studio is behind Telemeter except 20th Century-Fox ("We can't project their big-screen CinemaScope pictures on TV"). He looks forward to a minimum audience of 5,000,000 for TV film premieres. But, at the moment, moviemen are more intent on Palm Springs' 70 Telemeter set owners. Some of their comments: Director William (Roman Holiday) Wyler-"It's fine if we get paid. If movies are going to wind up on TV screens, I don't want to have a picture interrupted to talk about soap." Director Mervyn...