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Described by a New York critic as a surrealistic mishmash of "Eliot Ness, Together Ness and Pointless Ness," the season was one of unhappy comedy and unhealthy violence, of defections, dismissals and dismay. CBS lost its able News Division President Sig Mickelson. and ABC squeezed out veteran Newscaster John Daly. CBS's Edward R. Murrow took his tobacco habit to Washington as head of the U.S. Information Agency (see PRESS). Writer-Producer (The Sacco-Vanzetti Story) Robert Alan Aurthur quit TV with the parting shot: "Television may be unique in our free-enterprise system in that the harder...
Drooling Substitutes. One of the massiest satisfiers was ABC's high-flying The Untouchables, a gore-laden drama based only loosely on the exploits of Eliot Ness, a Prohibition era G-man, and specializing in novel ways to kill pretty women. Fortnight ago, the show's cigarette company sponsor quit when its products were boycotted by sensitive Italian-Americans-but The Untouchables is so hot that ABC had drooling substitute sponsors waiting in line...
...yeasayer who devours all ex perience, even the experience of a brutal beating, and finds it nourishing. Author Sillitoe has recognized and unforgettably defined a type. Actor Finney, under the keen direction of Karel Reisz, a gifted maker of documentary movies, embodies the type with remarkable vigor and exact ness. Finney's strongest asset as an actor is his presence, an inward weight that holds the center of every scene, as the heaviest fish holds the bottom of a net. But he is also a grandly gifted mimic. His dullard eye and dirgelike stroke, as he rides his bike...
Oscar Wilde, in adversity, might call shallowness "the supreme vice"; but shallow-ness-a wonderfully rewarding shallow-ness-is what went deepest in him. And much more than when sincerely contrite, he is tragic in the superb gallantry of such humor as when, standing handcuffed in the pouring rain, he murmured: "If this is how Her Majesty treats her prisoners, she doesn't deserve to have any." By omitting such touches and emphasizing Wilde's plangent side, and by himself-if often eloquent-being often florid, Mac Liammoir piles Pelion upon Oscar, and turns what he dubs...
...Eroticism," Lydia indulges in pseudo-Freudian persiflage on all Griff's favorite hymns. "Bloody blasphemous cow," he thinks, and tells her off in strong valley language. It is a compelling story so far-both gay and dismal. But Novelist Gallic will not let Griff welsh on his Welsh-ness : she wants him to win. In the end, the stage seems set for a true marriage of mathematics and letters, in a way the readers can only hope will warm the intercultural cockles of the heart of C. P. Snow...