Word: notting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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As the investigations widened and public suspicion grew, two arguments in defense of TV and allied entertainment fields, kicked up by volunteers and TV's own flashy flacks, were heard again and again: 1) plugs, payola and all that jazz have been around for a long time; 2) why...
Reaching behind the widely used notion that all entertainment is built on artful deception, Doerfer warned that programs which "contain a deceptive gloss above the accepted tolerances of dramatic license" might be outlawed in the next session of Congress, since shows that lure viewers unethically are using unfair means to...
So far there has been no testimony; two committee investigators have merely talked to Clark about his business affairs. But even before the subcommittee took a hand, ABC confronted him with a significant decision: he must get rid of his outside music interests or else quit TV. The companies involved...
Admitting that there may have been irregularities, TV Boss Bill Orr argued: "Instead of being unhappy, these people should be thankful . . . Look and see what some of these unhappy people were doing before they came to Warner Bros." But the actors were not buying that. Most echoed Maverick's...
Warners' contract is nicely geared to the slow-moving needs of the movies, the cowboys insist, but not to the hustle of TV. "In movies," says Garner, who blames his ulcer on life with Warners, "an actor is groomed slowly through bit parts until he's ready for...