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...goes first class all the way, but it budgets the trip. Wasserman is the sort of man who will not, for example, use 20 helicopters when one would do. He will not use one helicopter if a telephone call would be good enough. He will pay a writer like Rod Serling $15,000 for a single one-hour script, and his Bob Hope Chrysler Theater frequently exceeds $200,000 a show, but this does not imply that he thinks money can write or act. "He has a genius for what people like," says Tony Curtis. "He wouldn't make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood: A New Kind of King | 1/1/1965 | See Source »

CAROL FOR ANOTHER CHRISTMAS (ABC, 9:30-11 p.m.). The first of a series of specials on the U.N., this dramatic show is based loosely on Dickens' Christmas Carol, has a script by Rod Serling, a musical score by Henry Mancini, and is directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Broadway: Dec. 25, 1964 | 12/25/1964 | See Source »

Goldfinger. A grey sports car spirals lazily up an Alp. Looks like any other Aston Martin? Look again. This rod has bulletproof windows, and can change license plates at the flick of a switch. Its radioscope tracks a bugged automobile 240 km. away. From vents in the rear it releases a smokescreen and an oil slick. From ports in the grille it protrudes a pair of machine guns. What's more, the rear axle of the chariot is armed with bladed hub caps that telescopically extend to chew up the rubber of an overtaking vehicle. And if the driver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Knocking Off Fort Knox | 12/18/1964 | See Source »

Then everything turned upside down Trojan Quarterback Craig Fertig passed Fred Hill and Rod Sherman made clawing catches, Halfback Mike Garrett slipped away from Notre Dame tacklers as if he were coated with grease From his own 8, Fertig marched the Trojans to the Notre Dame 23. Then he rolled out, lofted a pass to Hill in the end zone, and the Irish lead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: College Football: The Trojan Horse | 12/4/1964 | See Source »

...Rod Steiger, 39, has played Al Capone, as well as a thug in On the Waterfront. But a sterling personality belies that base exterior, as Italian Producer Ermanno Olmi knew, and so he cast Steiger as Pope John XXIII, in the Vatican-approved screen version of the late Pope's diary. And There Came a Man, as it will be called, is now being filmed in John's native Sotto il Monte and, says Olmi firmly, "there will be no mixing of the sacred and profane." Says Steiger, who was raised a Lutheran: "I consider this part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 13, 1964 | 11/13/1964 | See Source »

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