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...ailment; in Woodland Hills, Calif. Corey's blue eyes could reflect the dementia of a paid killer (The Big Knife) or the dedication of a tough-talking psychiatrist (NBC-TV's The Eleventh Hour), and his career encompassed nearly 40 films and TV shows in 21 years. Offscreen, he was one of Hollywood's most ardent Republicans, campaigned tirelessly for Fellow Actor George Murphy's election to the Senate and was himself elected to the Santa Monica city council...
...shifting of votes between Front Runner Nixon and his opposition. But since there was very little "erosion," as possible vote shifts were invariably called, NBC viewers had to watch two days of model reporting in pursuit of a nonstory. CBS, on the other hand, tended to cover voting trends offscreen. Canvassing every single delegate, some since February, the network organized a running "CBS News Delegate Count." Since all that produced on the air was the latest totals,* CBS could devote more time to the circus side of the convention and diverting side bars...
...Savage Seven begins with a bare-chested Indian looming in the foreground, knife in hand. Another brave leaps forward and they begin to grapple to the death. Then comes an offscreen voice, "Will you guys quit screwing around?" The time is the present, and the Indians are a bunch of tribesmen trapped in a California poverty pocket. From out of the hills comes the Enemy, on wheels-and suddenly the ignoble savages find themselves in a stereotypical motorcycle picture...
Thirty Is a Dangerous Age, Cynthia is a vanity fair devoted to showing off the talents of Comic-Pianist Dudley Moore, the bedeviled star of Bedazzled and Beyond the Fringe (and Suzy's offscreen escort). This time he plays a 29-year-old jazzman born under the sign of Virgo who worries that "if you don't make it by the time you're 30, you'll never make it." Before reaching that climacteric, he resolves to write a hit musical and get married. Moore manages to do both-and do them comically-thanks in large...
...simple joys of maidenhood, she is forced to remain supine for 32 bars. Camelot's fantasy land is about as enchanted as a dolled-up back lot at Warner's. The picture's few supernatural elements-Arthur magically turned into a fish and a hawk-are offscreen occurrences, as if Camelot had abruptly run into budget trouble. Even the makeup seems to have been applied by an amateur; Harris' eye shadow is heavier than Redgrave's, and his white horse's is heavier still...