Word: pretending
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Front teeth newly recapped and visible behind a more or less constant smile, Frank Sinatra, 51, returned to the sidewalks of New York as . . . as a cop, for goodness' sake. All just pretend, of course, as affable Frank lazed around the 19th Precinct station house in pursuit of the title role of a movie called The Detective. Sinatra also made his first appearance as chairman of the American Italian Anti-Defamation League, which seeks to remove the stigma of gangsterism from the land that produced Dante, Michelangelo, Columbus, Mussolini and Capone. Nearly 20,000 fans turned out at Madison...
...will Harvard's offensive wall fare against Cornell? Probably, very well despite spectators' reservations. People forget that Harvard does not pretend to be a ball-control team, the Crimson formations favor end sweeps and quarterback roll-outs rather than inside power plays...
Steinberg, who does not pretend to speak for CBS management, never defines precisely what he means by conventional wisdom. Still, the effect of his argument can be seen in the CBS program lineup. Like NBC and ABC, Steinberg's network devotes a lot of time to news, public affairs and respectable, "cultural" programs (Death of a Salesman, the Young People's Concerts series). But CBS's regular programming emphasizes situation comedy and old-wave adventure; the Lucy Show, Comer Pyle and Gunsmoke, all more or less tell "linear" stories. The NBC and ABC standard schedules could...
...Pretend. And why are seasoned pros interested in playing Strasberg's little game of let's pretend? "For a cow to give milk," explains Actor-Director Barrault, "she must go back out into the fields from time to time." Adds Director Malle: "We needed Strasberg. I know that some French actors will say his method leads to overly introspective, overly personalized performances. But that's just our trouble. The French actor suffers from under-introspection...
Nevertheless, most of the French actors obviously dig la méthode and its group-therapy techniques. Says Strasberg: "One can sense their budding understanding." And also their growing dependence on the master. "What," wailed one French actress last week, "will we do after Lee has gone?" Maybe just pretend that he hasn...