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...Benjamin Disraeli. But the voracious appetite for real subjects, particularly on TV, is new, and so is the tendency to tell all without waiting until what was once considered a decent interval has elapsed. "It has to do with people's fascination with public figures," reasons William McCutchen, producer of ABC's Eisenhower TV-movie. "Despite all the tremendously creative ideas that come out of Hollywood, none of them equal what happens in real life. Some of these films can be sensational. There's no doubt about it." Beatty adds: "There are lives that are stranger than...
Immediate exhumation carries certain risks, however. As McCutchen's Ike story shows, it is harder to do Eisenhower, say, than Abraham Lincoln. The film is supposedly taken from Kay Summersby's kiss-and-tell book about her wartime romance with the general, but there will be no kiss and very little tell in ABC'S version. "I've got to think about a very lovely woman who is the widow of the ex-President," McCutchen explains. "We'll leave it to the people who watch the show to make up their own minds...
...earlier investigations of the series, the tone was sometimes indignant. This time, appropriately, there was an aura of bemusement too, an awareness that vanity often takes precedence over common sense. Asked Narrator Dick McCutchen: "If you feel that a $10 jar of something or other has made you look dazzling, and we tell you that it couldn't have possibly made any difference, except in your mind, does it mean that you have wasted your money...
Separating fantasy from fact, the show juxtaposed a cosmetics consultant, urging clients to use a combination of five or six preparations, with a dermatologist who said that one or two would do. Of course, manufacturers know that-and so do women. But as Narrator McCutchen said: "How can there be a reasonable price for a dream...
Divorced. Richard McCutchen, 32, personable onetime Marine Corps captain, now a Volkswagen district service manager, famed for his $64,000 winnings on cooking knowledge (he was the first top winner) from TV's now defunct The $64,000 Question; by Betsy Griffen McCutchen, 32; after ten years of marriage, three children; in Delaware, Ohio...