Word: screen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hubert Humphrey's campaign staffers recently witnessed an advertising presentation that shocked them. As proposed for a minute-long TV spot, it featured Humphrey's countenance superimposed on a dart board. While an off-screen voice solemnly ticked off Hubert's achievements ("first to come out for open housing . . . first for disarmament . . . first for aid to education"), darts went winging in on the vice-presidential face to drive each point home...
...rightists don't want Che glorified, and the leftists are sure their idol will be defiled." As for the Cu bans, says Fleischer, "I don't think we'll be playing Che in Cuba-though they might acquire a print so they can shoot at the screen...
...starring Paul Scofield, and shows headlined by Brigitte Bardot and Elvis Presley. CBS promises a study of the Galapagos Islands narrated by Britain's Prince Philip, a Royal Shakespeare Company production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, and another colloquy with Waterfront Philosopher Eric Hoffer. ABC will screen about 45 hours of the sum mer Olympics from Mexico, as well as a Truman Capote report on capital punishment and two more Capote teleplays. In news, CBS and NBC will pioneer prime-time shows with a magazine format. CBS's 60 Minutes, to be seen on alternate Tuesdays...
...played in scores of films, including Hold That Kiss, Brewster's Millions, T-Men; of cancer; in Santa Monica, Calif. Edward Flanagan was his name, bit parts and stunting were his game when O'Keefe was discovered by Clark Gable in 1937 and given a screen test that started his career as filmdom's comic guy-next-door. By the late '40s, he was writing and directing his own movies; he tried TV with The Dennis O'Keefe Show in 1959 and made his Broadway debut in 1964's Never Live Over a Pretzel...
...even drug addicts. "Parents and relatives and teachers may talk to them, but the children find them sometimes censorious, often dull. The child who watches television for four hours daily between the ages of three and 18 spends something like 22,000 hours in passive contemplation of the screen-hours stolen from the time needed to learn to relate to siblings, playmates, parents, grandparents, or strangers...