Word: screens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...page, Carpenter slept in movie houses. Then Patrolman Clarence Kerr, leaving the Biltmore Theater with his wife, spotted Carpenter snoozing through the gunfire-crackling climax of a western thriller. Policeman Kerr fired five times in the darkness, but fell to the floor, critically wounded, as Carpenter dashed behind the screen and out a fire exit, trailing a spoor of blood from a slug in his right thigh. For the next 23 hours, 500 enraged detectives and 60 squads of patrolmen roamed the area, intent on getting Cop-Killer Carpenter. A helicopter watched the rooftops. Scores of radio and TV broadcasts...
There are other limitations. Commercial TV will broadcast 52½ hours a week (compared to some 130 hours in the U.S.). The screen must be left blank on Sunday mornings so as not to compete with churchgoing; no Sunday afternoon shows may be aimed at children, because they might entice them away from Sunday school. At 6 every evening will occur the "toddler's truce," an hour of TV silence, so that parents can wring out their moppets and put them to bed. The program companies have made an unwritten agreement to limit U.S. imports...
...Hollywood, the Screen Actors Guild voted to end a twelve-day strike against the producers of filmed TV shows, accepted a new contract, including 1) raises in minimum pay from $70 a day to $80, 2) a graduated percentage of actors' minimum wages for the second through the sixth reruns of the original film. The Guild renounced rights to payments for more than six reruns on the sound assumption that not even long-suffering U.S. viewers will sit still and watch a seventh rerun of any filmed TV show...
Died. Lemuel Ayers, 40, top stage (Pajama Game, Camino Real) and screen (Meet Me in St. Louis) set and costume designer, Broadway co-producer (Kiss Me Kate) ; after long illness; in Manhattan...
...myth: the gigantic Cyclops is chillingly acted by Umberto Silvestri, and his howls of frenzy at the loss of his eye are enough to shatter cliffs; the immortal and immoral Circe (also played by Silvana Mangano) can call up tempests or turn men into porkers with equal ease. The screen writers have added one imaginative touch to the incident of the Sirens' rock: as his galley is rowed past that bone-littered shore. Ulysses, bound to the mainmast, is driven to frantic despair by the pleading voices of his wife and son, crying to him that he must...