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...recruited from the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood. Once in a while, the movie quiets its tone of social soap opera and pulls together a strong sequence: a gang fight, staged with the right kind of rushed clumsiness and dulled, all-directions violence, and a lacerating funeral sequence with a lightning-rod eulogy by a preacher (Ram John Holder...
...soon as the World Football League was born, former Crimson gridders like Rod Foster, Bill Craven, Ted DeMars and Eric Crone have had a chance to try out with the big boys. While only Foster and Craven have broken into the lineup in the new league, it is an indication that more will come...
...political climate on See It Now. Contemporary electronic equipment has only sharpened the picture on the tube, but not the commentary. Shows like Studio One and Playhouse 90 contributed as much pyrite as gold. But at their least, they gave good actors a shot at big roles: Rod Steiger, James Dean, Paul Newman, Anne Bancroft, Joanne Woodward were all there in living black and white. Satire, said Playwright George S. Kaufman, is what closes Saturday night. But somehow every Saturday night Sid Caesar's Your Show of Shows managed to kid every facet of '50s life, from commuters...
...sooner had the ban gone into effect than the local American Civil Liberties Union got a temporary restraining order. "People are indignant, and many are threatening civil disobedience," reported ACLU Spokesman Rod Ridenour...
...heavily in the early '60s, a popular participation mushroomed. Entrepreneurs figured that they could tune into something big--the problem, were the killing to be made was to unleash tennis from its dignified moorings, to get that governor off his old stately carriage, let him loose like a hot rod from hell. Figuring, first, that tennis had to be turned to big business. Then what drew the biggest box office crowds? It was the Woodstocks, the audience participation cathartics. When the audience was kept behind barriers, it was the sports which most closely resembled war--football and soccer, sports which...