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Could be, and the substitute Thursday night was no farther away than a flick of the dial, where Sinatra was competing with himself as Major Marco in The Manchurian Candidate. Beside CBS's Thursday Night Movies, there is also NBC's Tuesday Night at the Movies and Saturday Night at the Movies and ABC's Sunday Night Movie. Since the three networks, now locked in a furious three-way ratings tie, can't begin yanking shows for 13 weeks, and significant ratings will not emerge before late November, these may provide the only safe haven...
...THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIE (CBS, 9-11:15 p.m.). CBS's first plunge into prime-time feature films, beginning with The Manchurian Candidate (1962), starring Frank Sinatra (see below...
...DEAN MARTIN SHOW (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Variety. Opening-night guests include Diahann Carroll, Bob Newhart and Frank Sinatra (who will thus be competing with the Manchurian Candidate version of himself...
Maher called the allegation of a terrorist cadre "something out of the Manchurian Candidate." As for PL members Studying Karate, he said that is true. "But a lot of people study karate. The reason is that the mental discipline that goes along with it is attractive to people who think. Many members were studying karate long before they ever heard...
...successful TV series, it is the principal actor who makes the difference. In this case, it is John McGiver, the balding fellow who waited on Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany's and whose concise, precise portrayals have lightened other films from Love in the Afternoon to The Manchurian Candidate. Now he's an employee of a department store whose career depends on his ability to persuade people to keep merchandise they are trying to return. Urbanely, he convinces a woman that she should keep a teakettle because of its unique talent for whistling Beethoven's Fifth...