Word: motioning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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40TH ANNUAL AWARDS PRESENTATION OF THE ACADEMY OF MOTION PICTURE ARTS AND SCIENCES (ABC, 10 p.m. to conclusion). Angie Dickinson, Macdonald Carey, Barbra Streisand, Audrey Hepburn, Warren Beatty, Kirk Douglas and Carol Channing join Bob (still-waiting-for-an-Oscar) Hope in this year's presentations. of Sinclair Lewis' Babbitt (1922) and John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath (1939). Pat Hingle and Richard Boone read selections from the two works...
Some old Johnson hands have be gun reappearing. Former White House Aide Jack Valenti, now the $125,000-a-year president of the Motion Picture Association of America, contributed a Washington Post article deploring the "holy regard" among Americans for a President's "charisma." Wrote Valenti: "The only two modern figures who could be truly said to possess magic charisma, whose voice and person cast a spell over their countrymen and whom people followed blindly and exultingly were the two largest tyrants of our age, Hitler and Mussolini." Somehow, he overlooked such charismatic non-tyrants as Churchill and Gandhi...
...climactic moment but runs down to it like an unwound clock. As comedy, it is fitful; as a social comment, it is fretful, without being particularly penetrating or fresh. Considering how talky the evening is, Burgess Meredith's direction wings it along at a dancing pace with frenetic motion and effervescent, semi-psychedelic lighting. It may be an ironic reflection of the health, resilience and confidence of the U.S. spirit that the play, despite transparent distaste for American capitalism, was supported, promoted, and frequently applauded by an audience liberally sprinkled with Dallas millionaires...
Since the election is a state election, the motion of the City Council is irrelevant, but this did not seem to bother Vellucci...
...present the best collection of American silent films resides not in the American archives at Eastman House and the Museum of Modern Art, but in the Cinematheque Francais in Paris. The AFI, a private corporation based in Washington, D.C., initially endowed by the government, the Ford foundation, and the Motion Picture Association, is bringing it all back home. As archive director, Kahlenberg ferrets out American films of artistic and historical value that have disappeared for one or another reason. Some have vanished (like Hawks' Scarface, produced by the ubiquitous Howard Hughes, and all 35mm prints of Ford's Stagecoach...