Word: printings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WHILE HE RILES against the Boston press as "maggots," he likes reporters and blames only editors for his troubles. "Nobody wants to print the fuckin' truth," he says. Although they had never met, Dapper had an ongoing feud with the elegant Boston Globe columnist, the late George Frazier '32. "He's where he belongs," O'Neil says. "I pissed on his grave one night...sure, I was sober.... He was a fag with that fuckin' flower...
...Committee stories bear repeating as often as Grimm because they correspond to the screenwriters' own self-image at the moment. For years they had been the leftists who sat by pools in their Hawaiian print shirts, hauling in $1500 a week. Suddenly they were Everyman again, the Everyman they had been writing dialogue for for years. They harbored the screenwriters' dream--to play their own words. When the chance came, they were so noble, so articulate, so right, that almost nobody believed them--anymore than anybody could really believe what they had been writing for the screen all that time...
...along the lines of its original creation, something in the spirit of A.J. Liebling's writings on the press. Liebling dealt in matters of substance, giving examples from around the country about what can happen when you have a one-paper town, or how publishers force their biases into print, or how we are privy to such poor foreign reporting. When Liebling wrote on the Times' he didn't dwell on inter-office memos. He would critique the paper and show how, for instance, it may slant a labor story against management or get the facts wrong...
...California (Berkeley), and finish a book. Schorr is free to leave the CBS payroll and join another network, but he insists that he is finished with television. Says he: "I have a terrible hunger for direct contact with people, and I want to see those little words in print that I can go back to next day and say, That's what I wrote...
...corn stalks near his farm, and extemporizing upon his stands on specific issues. Rafshoon is repeating a strategy he successfully employed during the battle for the nomination: planting 30-sec. spots on TV shows such as Lawrence Welk and Hee-Haw, favored by down-home Americans. Both TV and print ads hammer home the campaign's theme: "A Leader, for a Change...