Word: rods
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fluidly mounted flashbacks, four separate versions of the event are re-enacted. Up to a point the facts jibe. A bandit (Rod Steiger) has stalked a passing samurai (Noel Willman) and his wife (Claire Bloom) through a bamboo glade, decoyed the husband with promises of buried loot, trussed him up, and raped his wife before his eyes. The samurai is later found dead. According to the bandit, the wife baited him into killing her husband to gain her. The wife swears she killed him to spare him dishonor. Through a medium, the dead samurai claims that he heartbrokenly committed suicide...
...Apart from a U.N.-like babel of accents, the brilliant cast often achieves a triumph of mime over matter. Radiant, in white kimono, as netted moonlight, Claire Bloom is part lotus flower, part flower of evil. Noel Willman's samurai is a bred-in-the-bone aristocrat, and Rod Steiger's bandit a bite-to-the-bone outlaw...
Automatic Fisherman. An automatic, spring-triggered fishing-rod holder for lazy or busy fishermen was put on the market by Automatic Fish Rod Manufacturing of Detroit. The holder can be adjusted for small, medium and heavy fish, automatically snaps to a vertical position and sets the hook at any bite on the line. Price...
...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...