Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Last month in a Brooklyn movie house, a pipe-bomb exploded, injured seven people. On Christmas Eve a page found a sock-wrapped bomb in a telephone booth of the New York Public Library. Three days later the bomb squad followed a tip to Times Square's famed Paramount Theater, searched high and low after the last show, found another pipe-bomb hidden in a seventeenth-row seat. Two detectives dressed in protective steel clothing gingerly loaded the bomb into a steel-mesh enclosed police truck, whisked it out to a lonely beach...
...Rainmaker (Hal Wollis; Paramount). Most modern audiences seem to enjoy a good sermon-as long as it preaches what they practice. They are also increasingly symbol-minded-provided the symbols do not excite the mental so much as the sentimental faculties ("It isn't enough that boy meets girl," one playwright complained. "Now they want to know what he metaphor"). They also have a kindly feeling of superiority for an old maid-if she isn't too old. And everybody loves a cowboy picture...
Other leaders: ABC-Paramount, Cricket. Peter Pan. The basic types of children's records-called "kidisks" by Billboard: ¶ Stories with music, usually a familiar fairy tale with its teeth pulled: e.g., the wolf doesn't eat Little Red Riding Hood; Snow White's stepmother sends her to the woods, but not to be executed. ¶ Pop songs with a "kiddie beat." i.e., reduced intensity, such as Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, or Sixteen Tons, its lyrics altered to explain that coal is mined so that houses can be heated. ¶ Educational or uplift records such...
...Commandments (Paramount...
...been high enough (TIME, Nov. 12). What softened the blow for Schary was a $1,000,000-plus settlement to be spread over about ten years. Schary is the fourth Hollywood production boss to go in recent months. The others: 20th Century-Fox's Darryl Zanuck, Paramount's Don Hartman, Columbia's Jerry Wald. Schary's ousting put the movie industry's seal on the end of an old era-the period of major studios with their assembly-line production of dozens of movies every year. The new era features independent production in which each...