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Dial-the-Radio. The trend away from packaged format continues, and the direction is toward talk, talk, talk. Joe Pyne, who gives his viewers a thrill by insulting guests, is running on 46 stations. David Susskind's discussion show hits 17 stations. William F. Buckley Jr., on 20 stations, commands one of the more intelligent talk shows. Los Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty is a regular chatterbox on local TV, joshing away with Pierre Salinger or George Jessel, and Comic Mort Sahl has found a Los Angeles TV soapbox from which to harangue an avid following with his prophecies...
Shakespeare cared too much for his satellite roles to give the entire show to the stars, and it is as much the supporting players as the Burtons who give the Shrew vitality. Victor Spinetti, Cyril Cusak and Michael Hordern are a brilliant bunch of second bananas. Natasha Pyne, as Kate's sister Bianca, plays with a wide-eyed vanilla-pudding approach that deliberately lends Kate more flavor...
Masochism Syndrome. Pennsylvania-born Pyne got his first job at the age of eleven working on an ice truck in Atlantic City, later put in time on seven radio stations in four states and Canada. A World War II marine with three battle stars and a wooden leg, Pyne fancies himself a foreign-affairs expert. His Asia policy, for instance, is to bomb Red China. When California Democratic Congressman Jeffrey Cohelan expressed a less hawkish view, Pyne, who had phoned him for an opinion in the first place, sneered: "What qualifies you to comment on military strategy...
...better question is why anyone bothers to confront Pyne. "It's a masochism syndrome," opines Pyne. "They look to me for approbation, as a father image, but sometimes they feel the need to be punished-and they know that I'll punish them." Many of those who do volunteer are extremist polemicists or plain hucksters who will suffer any indignity for a soapbox. Characteristic guests on his syndicated TV show: Black Muslims, prophets of eccentric sects, American Nazis, champions of free love or free LSD, homosexuals, and Helen Gurley Brown...
...Beef Box" to vent further ill logic, ill manners, neologisms and non sequiturs. Guests are frequently told to "get lost" or they steam off the set voluntarily; one threw a phone at Joe (it missed), punched the producer in the mouth. During last year's Watts riot, Pyne displayed a gun on screen in front of a Negro guest and was himself bounced for a week. Pyne does not deny charges that he prefers heat over light. "The subject must be visceral," he figures. "We want emotion, not mental involvement...