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Though senior citizens like to recall the good old days when the Academy Awards had dignity and style, that, too, is illusion. "At my first Oscars presentation," recalls Director Joseph Mankiewicz (All About Eve), "Jackie Cooper fell asleep in Marie Dressler's lap. The president of the Academy suggested that everybody toast his wife." In the days before television's time limitations, baroque speeches thanking everyone from the star's mother to the wardrobe mistress were de rigueur. Greer Garson's Mrs. Miniver acknowledgment took 40 minutes...
...hell they're voting for. Not any more than a clothing salesman from Dayton, Ohio." Paramount's production chief Robert Evans concurs: "There are people in the Academy who haven't worked in years. How can they know what the industry is about anymore?" Perhaps Joseph Mankiewicz is correct when he says: "A film academy that includes financiers and publicity men and does not include Fellini, Bergman and Truffaut, can hardly be called an academy. Somewhere there should be a place where film creators decide for themselves matters of merit." Says Paul Newman: "There must be something...
...actually strengthen the anti-Administration forces by engaging many presently inactive Kennedy supporters and bringing their added pressure to bear against the Vice President. Almost as soon as Mc Govern announced, old New Frontiersmen Pierre Salinger and Arthur Schlesinger Jr. endorsed him. Salinger and former R.F.K. Press Secretary Frank Mankiewicz are expected to join his staff...
...Otis Chandler, who allows that "it would be nice to have someone in office who would do good things for the city." At their first general meeting this week, the nearly 200 members will consider issues and candidates for the spring battle with Yorty. A leading contender is Frank Mankiewicz, Robert Kennedy's press secretary, who used to practice law in Beverly Hills...
WHAT'S HAPPENING TO AMERICA? (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). NBC News Correspondent Edwin Newman, New York City Mayor John Lindsay and Frank Mankiewicz, press secretary to the late Senator Kennedy, mull over what everyone wants to know. Second in a four-part series...