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...show was memorable not as a play but as a document of the frightened fascination with which some writers regard Hollywood, as if it were a basketful of hypnotizing snakes. In The Velvet Alley, produced on CBS' Playhouse 90, TV Playwright Rod Serling told the story of a struggling 42-year-old TV playwright from Manhattan named Ernie Pandish, who sells a script and overnight becomes rich, famous and an s.o.b. Where once he listened to music while he worked (he apparently owned only one phonograph record, Swan Lake), now the only music heard is the snarling...
Like Ernie Pandish, Rod Serling, 34, became famous overnight with a TV play (Patterns), four years later went to Hollywood from his home in Westport, Conn., bought a house with a swimming pool, and made big money (more than $10,000 a script). Like Ernie, he fired his old agent, although the separation was more or less amicable. Unlike Ernie, he is still happily married. Perhaps like Ernie, he feels harried by having to live up in every script to his first big success. Says he: "One of the basic problems in this industry is that it never trains people...
Mike Hollern and Rod Anderson are major scoring threats for the Green, and Dirk Frankenberg is a more than competent goalie. Frankenberg's biggest trouble is usually his own temper; but unfortunately there will not be enough Crimson fans at Hanover this weekend to get it stirred...
...widely admired Japanese movie, is a whodunit about the death of a nobleman in a medieval forest. There are four different versions of the crime, but the solution is left to the audience. Rashomon (opening on Broadway Jan. 27) beguiled Philadelphia with its fine acting by Claire Bloom, Rod Steiger, Noel Willman, Akim Tamiroff, Oscar Homolka. The fable may be inscrutable, but, said Variety, "for some playgoers it is exciting entertainment...
...Playwright Rod (Patterns) Serling, who has often brooded about the problems of money and success in the business world, broods about the problems of money and success in the writing trade. With Art Carney, Katharine Bard, Jack Klugman, Bonita Granville...