Word: screens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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MacNamara claims that every big studio is behind Telemeter except 20th Century-Fox ("We can't project their big-screen CinemaScope pictures on TV"). He looks forward to a minimum audience of 5,000,000 for TV film premieres. But, at the moment, moviemen are more intent on Palm Springs' 70 Telemeter set owners. Some of their comments: Director William (Roman Holiday) Wyler-"It's fine if we get paid. If movies are going to wind up on TV screens, I don't want to have a picture interrupted to talk about soap." Director Mervyn...
Finding a TV drama in Wolfe's torrential prose was not easy. McCleery chose an episode dealing with the last days of a Southern patriarch and the effect of his death on relatives and friends. The story was told mostly in the screen-filling close-ups that have become a McCleery trademark. Actor Thomas Mitchell gave a memorable portrait of the old man "who, knowing that he had often lived badly, was now determined to die well." The show was alive with crosscurrents of affection and hate, small tyranny and big-souled resignation, all set to the orchestration...
...companion feature, The Passionate Sentry, should perhaps have top-billing on the program. Though not filmed in sumptuous color, the picture has Valerie Hobson and Peggy, Cummins to keep all eyes on the screen. An improbable story about a quadrangular love affair set in St. James' palace, it has some of the shies affair set in St. James' palace, it has some of the sophistication and wit typical of good English comedy. George Colt and Niger Patrick held up the male end of the cast...
...steak, in what Hollywood considers Roman fashion. Upon entering the candlelit, gold-draped room, the diners toss their shoes into a basket and recline on a five-foot-wide divan which stretches around the walls. Sinking into a sea of pillows (45 in all) and gazing at a projection screen showing a Roman garden, the guests are served by waitresses dressed in silky purple pantaloons and boleros. In addition to buffalo steak, Sasha's offers such items as suckling pig (dressed with lemon in mouth, maraschino cherries in eyes), lamb, baby goat, pheasant and partridge. Price of a meal...
...other words used in Brownell's speech carried an implication of conscious disloyalty to the U.S. on the part of the people who appointed White. Nevertheless, the molders of the Democratic Party's line looked at Brownell's words and laid down a heavy smoke screen. Democratic National Chairman Stephen Mitchell cried that Brownell had accused Harry Truman of disloyalty, had "tried a former President of the United States for treason before a luncheon club...