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Among broadcasters, perhaps no other company has suffered so many assaults on its reputation as RKO General. Since the mid-1960s, rivals who have coveted RKO's broadcasting licenses have been accusing the chain of unethical conduct. That is a serious charge against any broadcaster, since the Federal Communications Commission can revoke the licenses of companies it considers to be of questionable character -- even if they are not convicted of violating the law. Last week the FCC may finally have pulled RKO's plug. Edward Kuhlmann, an FCC administrative law judge, denied RKO's application to renew its license...
...HEART OF the show, as everyone knows, is the glorious era of RKO and MGM musicals. Ray Bolger does the boasting for all the luminaries present: Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Cyd Charisse, Eleanor Powell, Donald O'Connor, Judy Garland. Among the MGM treats is Gene Kelly's original dance with Carol Haney, whose figure was later replaced by a cartoon figure for the animated classic Invitation to Dance. Kelly dances with garbage-can lids on his feet in It's Always Fair Weather and Donald O'Connor helps him make a shambles of a linguist's office...
...platinum-blond bombshell who was endlessly touted in the 1950s as her country's answer to Marilyn Monroe; of cancer; in Windsor, England. Like Monroe, Dors had brains and talent, but was wasted in a spate of Hollywood clunkers (I Married a Woman) before being dropped by RKO. She retained Britons' affection, however, and even after ballooning to Wagnerian-soprano proportions played comic and character parts in theater...
...have about a 75% completion rate," he says. "That's good for a quarterback. It's not so good for a luge racer." Tucker was born in San Juan, where his father distributed motion pictures for RKO. He lived there five of his 36 years, but spent the larger part around Albany, N.Y., irregularly pursuing a doctorate in physics among other degrees of understanding. Introduced as "George Turkey" by the Yugoslav public address announcer, Tucker muses, "He knows more English than he lets on," and takes off on another practice slide down a jagged icicle that meanders like...
...Yard (1974), and The Dirty Dozen (1967), which at the time sparked complaints about its relentless brutality; of kidney failure; in Los Angeles. Scion of a prominent New England family and a Rockefeller cousin, Aldrich rejected a banking career to start as a $25-a-week production clerk at RKO studios...