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...Nearly twice as many films were made in Rome last year as were made in California. It is an O.K. city to work in, but the more or less permanent new Romans seem to give off an odor of being on a waiting list for Geneva: Cameron Mitchell, Guy Madison, Fernando Lamas, John Barrymore Jr., Esther Williams, Steve Reeves, Gordon Scott, Anita Ekberg...
...take infinite pains in diagnosing the auto, oil or steel industry, but almost no one tackles the industry that makes 'the most important product of all. It is knowledge, defined as information, old or new, which is produced and disseminated by all kinds of agents-Mom, TV, Harvard, Madison Avenue or the Roman Catholic Church. Can anyone judge their economic efficiency, or even the cash value of their services...
...Madison Avenue has taken the enemy out of American life. We don't know who the enemy is with a capital E. This is a frightening thing. Who gives a goddam about moon shots when you see zombies walking around with lost souls? This is why I have to write plays...
Meanwhile, back on Madison Avenue, Weiner's play hints at social commentary, it hints at some real exploration of its characters; it hints at many dramatic statements and then shies off. The tension in Woody Hartman's life is finally between personal sacrifice and personal gratification; a divorce and an affair; a business coup and a business risk. The sense of life that Woody talks about when he reaches 40 disappears from our sight...too bad. One wife or another is not made to seem very important, actually. By an irony the play emphasizes the financial index of success: precisely...
...Marietta or the Statue of Liberty, or some girl like that. Today, the most eye-filling show in town -free and continuous-takes place in art galleries (see color on following four pages) that begin on Tenth Street, line 57th Street and sweep up the East Side, mostly along Madison Avenue, to the high...