Word: roache
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Born. To Victor Borge, 45, Danish-born pianist-wit whose Comedy in Music has broken all Broadway records for one-man shows (ninth month, heading toward 300 performances), and Sarahbel Roach Borge, 34, his second wife: a son. Name: Victor Bernhard. Weight...
...well as that of the Manhattan producers of live shows, that they are about to be swallowed up by Hollywood. At first, almost all television was live. Now one third of sponsored network shows are on film, and the percentage is growing. Such TV film-makers as Hal Roach...
...fight is an artistic squabble. Producers and directors of such live shows as Studio One, U.S. Steel Hour and Philco Goodyear TV Playhouse argue that the theaterlike thrill of live TV cannot be captured on film, and that live performances hold more excitement and spontaneity. Replies Film-Maker Hal Roach-"Who wants to see a stagehand in the wrong place, or hear an actor muff his lines? That's what spontaneity means...
...Roach's production this year will top the combined footage of Metro Goldwyn Mayer, 20th Century-Fox and Warner Bros. Right from the first, says Roach "it was plain that this hungry TV medium could only be fed with film." But the casualties were high. Banks refused to lend money. The major studios refused to let their stars appear in TV shows. Of some 500 embryo TV filmmakers, only 46 survive, and only half a dozen make sizable profits. Roach aims solely at producing entertainment by assembly-line methods, says: "It's like the auto business...
...Roach made 98 films of Racket Squad sold them to a sponsor, but just barely made expenses ("I was banking on the fact that I could show the films again and cash in"). He won his gamble by reselling the films to the ABC network for $1,000,000. He has 30 writers hard at work on three on-the-air series (Public Defender, Duffy's Tavern, My Little Margie) and seven new programs...