Word: rko
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...needed to complete the scene was for Fred Astaire to appear at dockside, and off they would dance to Oh, You Beautiful Doll while the RKO studio orchestra played on. Yet even without old Fred, Ginger Rogers, 57, landed in Southampton just as a superstar should-still looking beautiful in a fur-hooded ensemble, waving and blowing kisses to scores of worshipful fans while a 55-piece band blasted out greetings. Ginger was en route to London for a year's run in Mame. When someone mentioned her $600,000 contract to play Auntie, she sounded...
...gesture was appropriate. The owners of WHCT, RKO General, have lost $6,000,000 on the experiment so far. Other millions have been invested by the developer of the Hartford decoding system, the Zenith Radio Corp. Neither firm expected to make a profit with such a small test market. But both were encouraged enough by the steadfastness of subscribers to continue the experiment. Zenith is working on a more sophisticated decoder with automated billing and has long petitioned the FCC for a go-ahead in other markets. Now, after years of knuckling under to the anti-pay lobby...
...elevator would only allow three people at a time to come up," Sack explains. "The only thing different is that we don't have the guards he kept here. That antique clock, this table, that desk over there--they all belonged to Ambassador Kennedy, too, when he owned the RKO chain." Yes, Ben Sack, having acquired a Kennedy theatre, went on to inhabit a Kennedy office. Why, Norman Podhoretz couldn't have done it any better...
...will never see Orson Welles's own cut of The Magnificent Ambersons, drastically altered by RKO, or Touch of Evil, re-edited by Universal. Most tragic, Welles was sent in 1942 to South America to film a color documentary shortly after the completion of Citizen Kane; after Welles had shot thousands of feet of film, RKO withdrew financial support, recalled Welles, and put his uncut footage into the vaults. For years unidentifiable random shots from the film, It's All True, turned up as stock footage in Latin American thrillers, the only Welles color footage thereby becoming scattered and hopelessly...
...balance their play list of new releases with selected classics of the genre (examples: the Platters' The Great Pretender, Chuck Berry's Roll Over Beethoven, the Everly Brothers' Bye Bye Love). New York's WOR-FM ("The Sound of Solid Gold") is one of six RKO General radio stations across the country on which the proportion of oldies is as high...