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...blatantly anti-war film: if only people could realize how horrible even "tactical" nuclear weapons can be, then even talking about them would be obscene, building them unthinkable. To make the film as shocking as possible, Watkins decided to make it look like a television documentary. An off-camera interviewer is asking radiation victims, "Well, how do you feel now, with your country destroyed and everyone sick or dead? How do you feel?" This is all very sad. To make something as real as he could, Watkins structured nuclear war as an event, as a lousy event you watch...
Those who must die nowadays often do so off-camera or more quickly, and barroom brawls are also less bruising. As a result, the first victims of TV's pacification drive have been the stuntmen. Employment among the fight-and-fall corps is down 40%. "We used to have nice drag-out fights and make some good money," laments Chuck Hicks, president of the Stuntmen's Association. "Now a guy just pulls a gun and stands there. So we suffer...
Died. Franchot Tone, 63, longtime movie star whose off-camera tiffs sometimes overshadowed his considerable acting ability; of lung cancer; in Manhattan. Suave son of a wealthy industrialist, Tone moved quickly from lead roles on Broadway to Hollywood, where he made 53 films, including Mutiny on the Bounty and Advise and Consent. His personal life was littered with four broken marriages and several fights, one of which-against Bit Actor Tom Neal over the affections of Tone's third wife, Barbara Payton, in 1951 -left him with a battered face that required plastic surgery...
...Off-Camera. Cohn wrote the book from what he claims to be "the perspective of years," but in looking back over his 19 "incredible months" with the Senator, he writes like a man who has remembered everything and learned nothing. Recalling his library-raiding tour of USIS offices in Europe with G. David Schine, he admits that it might have been unnecessary to remove Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon, but he still implies that John K. Fairbank's commendable classic, The United States and China, is somehow subversive-and quotes a paragraph out of context to prove...
Nearly half the book is given over to the Army-McCarthy hearings. Cohn's retelling, though, is more dialectic than discussion, and its only virtue is that it provides yet another unedifying glimpse behind the Senate caucus-room scenes. More interesting is his sentimental portrait of the off-camera McCarthy. Here is Joe hiding four dozen toys for visiting children; Joe eating cheeseburgers in fancy restaurants; Joe giving a plane ride to an antagonistic correspondent; Joe, in defeat after censure, slumping in a chair to watch a TV soap opera...