Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...become the star of a new Hollywood, and the movies merely a supporting player. Items: ¶A single Hollywood TV show, NBC's daily Matinee Theater, hires 2,400 actors a year for speaking parts-50% more than the players used by Warner and Paramount combined in all their 1956 movies. The show uses as many scripts-250 a year-as all the studios put together. ¶A single TV film producer, Desi Arnaz' and Lucille Ball's Desilu, which turns out I Love Lucy and 14 other shows, spends $21 million a year, employs...
...softened them up for the production deals that give top creative talent between 50% and 75% of a movie's profits. The ill wind has so far blown a windfall of $150 million to the studios for letting their pre-1948 movies go on the air. Except for Paramount, every major studio is also making TV films in earnest. Movie bigwigs curled their lips when such onetime movie performers as Betty Furness, William Lundigan, Lee Bowman and Ronald Reagan emerged as full-time TV commercial pluggers, but now virtually all the studios are in the business of filming commercials...
...Elis are "the paramount power in Eastern golf," says Crimson coach Cooney Weiland. The Yale powerhouse hasn't lost a match with the Harvard golfers for two decades. But, Weiland would add, the Crimson has a good chance of winning today, when they meet Yale at the Dedham Golf Course...
...Buster Keaton Story (Paramount). The policeman circled the object suspiciously. Its face looked like something that had crawled up through the collar and died. On top of it, as though to keep the flies off, sat a filthy felt skimmer the shape of a garbage-can lid. The soup-stained Ascot tie was asserted by a simple clothespin. The black serge suit was sizes too small and green with experience. The slap shoes were as big as cantaloupe crates...
Next Questions. The most improbable conspirator in the Soble ring was a roly-poly, harmless looking mystery man named Boris Morros, who used to be well known in Hollywood and Manhattan as musical director of Paramount Pictures, and later as a movie producer (Tales of Manhattan, Carnegie Hall). Over the past decade or so, Russian-born Boris Morros had little to do with moviemaking, spent much of his time in Europe. Just what he was up to was a puzzle to his old Hollywood acquaintances. Shortly after the FBI nabbed the Sobles, the Justice Department identified Morros as its star...