Word: screens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this story is not particularly attractive, it contains no pornography, either in the situation itself or in the way it is photographed. The playwright's declared purpose is to show corruption, and his story does so while remaining well within the bounds of what is acceptable on the modern screen or stage. The real trouble with the film lies in Williams' failure to make his people anything more than corrupt. They have more medical than dramatic interest--or at least they did until Elia Kazan got to work on them...
Married. Vivian Elaine, 37, wide-eyed actress ("Miss Adelaide" of Guys and Dolls on both stage and screen); and Milton R. Rackmil, 56, president of Decca Records and Universal Pictures; both for the second time; in Manhattan...
Inevitably, discussion drifted toward Feiffer's plans for his next book. He admitted that he hadn't given much thought to another book, but speculated that one might be published next year, "maybe it will be something about the Presidential elections." "My next project" he said, "will be a screen play. Someone came along one day and said, 'How'd you like to write a movie script?' I said, 'Gee, yeah.' So, this summer I'm going to try. It's something I've always wanted...
...Curtain? The West German Defense Ministry did not know. Then what of the extensive and expensive radar net set up by West Germany and its NATO allies to prevent just such incursions? A Defense spokesman replied embarrassedly that there had been no reports of planes appearing on any radar screen, and added bleakly: "We have no idea what aircraft bombed Knechtsand. The investigation is continuing...
...have looked strange, but there on the TV screen was Bing Crosby extolling the virtues of a kitchen crammed with American Gas Association appliances. Other times, other channels, John Wayne, Rock Hudson and even Zsa Zsa Gabor clutched Gillette razors, while Teresa Wright praised Scott Paper. Ever since Jack Benny came on saying "JellO again," radio and TV stars have plugged away at their sponsors' commercials, but never before have so many Hollywood big shots-some of whom otherwise shun TV-been available for commercial spieling...