Word: premi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Real Chaos. At the premiére, there was scattered applause but no shouting for the director. As the film spread out in new openings, reactions were marvelously at odds. People in one southern town nearly beat up the theater manager because they found "8½" so frustratingly incomprehensible. But so-called intellectual reviewers began chiseling out deathless lines of praise ("chief work of a magician of genius") and tracing the influences on Fellini of Resnais and Bergman, Proust and Joyce...
...Première (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). Ralph Bellamy, Bradford Dillman, Bettye Ackerman and George Voskovec are the guests in a drama called "Chain Reaction...
Thurs., Dec. 20 Alcoa Premi...
Though it seemed hardly necessary, a new organization called the Let's Chew More Gum Association opened offices this month in Tokyo. The opening, attended by politicians, baseball stars and showfolk, went as smoothly as a cathedral service-which, in a way, it was. Highlight of the première was a special prayer intoned by a Shinto priest standing before a kind of altar to gamu. Excerpts...
...perhaps the most distinguished evenings of the week were provided by the Cleveland Orchestra under George Szell and the Boston Symphony, which not only played superbly under its new conductor, Erich Leinsdorf (see below), but included in its program what proved to be the week's most distinguished première-Samuel Barber's Piano Concerto, with John Browning as soloist, Composers Copland, Walter Piston and William Bergsma had also provided opening-week pieces, all of them competent occasional music (Copland's brassy, sinewy Connotations for Orchestra, Piston's stately Lincoln Center Festival Overture, Bergsma...