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What the result in that case will be remains unclear, but it seems that the so-called energy crisis will have a profound impact upon the action both on-screen...
CRTS glow eerily at U.P.I, headquarters in New York and at ten A.P. regional "hubs" across the U.S. When correspondents' stories reach these central offices, they are now fed directly into computers. Seated next to their CRTS, wire-service editors can order the computer to display on-screen a list of all stories filed during the previous 24 hours. Another command can call up the text of a story, which is then seen on the screen in segments of up to 31 lines at a time. As the editor electronically rolls the story forward, he can maneuver a lighted...
...Nixon inner staff, she has a temper. She has flashed it in Judge Sirica's courtroom, and against politicians and journalists who criticized Nixon. During a recent Nixon press conference that she watched on television in her apartment, she sprang out of her chair and shouted epithets at the on-screen newsmen whose questions she considered impertinent. As the Watergate drama unfolds, a major question is just what might be the limits of the secretary's loyalty to her boss of nearly a quarter-century...
WEDNESDAY: The Enforcer. (1951) Whatever else this Humphrey Bogart crime melodrama may be, it is more violent than the Battle of Culloden and rivals nuclear war. At least ten people die on-screen in bloody detail and another 20 or 30 are implicated in the general mayhem. Bogie comes through clean of course as the upstanding D.A. fighting organized crime. Where are the Special Prosecutors of yesteryear" CH.38...
Died. Miriam Hopkins, 69, sprightly blonde star of dozens of movies in the 1930s and '40s; of a heart attack; in New York. A vivacious talker with a honeyed Georgia drawl off-camera, Hopkins on-screen cast shrewd eyes on her leading men. One of her early hits was Director Ernst Lubitsch's Trouble in Paradise (1932). She heightened her stardom with the title role in Hollywood's first full-length Technicolor feature, Becky Sharp (1935), and the controversial These Three (1936). One of Hopkins' major professional regrets: turning down the female lead in It Happened...