Word: screens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...members of the family as, each on tedious schedule, they came home from school or work. ABC's American Bandstand, the 4 p.m. teen-age dance show, had been on a couple of minutes when Diana's sandy-haired brother, 14-year-old Bobby, slammed the front screen door, stomped familiarly back through the kitchen into the den. Resting the old gun on the TV, Diana took aim and shot him through the forehead, dropping him without a murmur amidst his scattered books...
...under Thomas Wolfe. Wald did not forget that prolix prose poet's advice: "Gentlemen, never write anything but masterpieces; there's such a good market for them." Says Wald: "That's a pretty good idea for movies too." In 1933 Wald sold a story to Modern Screen magazine, was brought West to Warner Brothers to turn it into a movie. From Warner he bounced on to RKO, next tried Columbia, then Fox. Over the years, Producer Wald, 46, has built up a reputation for idiosyncrasies, something that is increasingly rare in the new Hollywood. Examples: he never...
...days, 698 such filmed commercials assaulted the senses of judges from eleven countries gathered in Venice last week for the fifth annual festival of the International Screen Advertising Services. Though their eyes dimmed and their ears ached, the judges-all advertising executives-insisted that commercials the world over are getting better...
...posse also includes the usual comic dog handler, in a movie that needs no comic relief. Yet the basic structure is still sound, despite one of the least likely romantic interludes on the modern screen...
...around to his right with the ball, and end Stu Hershon raced into the end zone, uncovered for several moments. But Ravenel delayed his pass, and then when it seemed he might score on the ground, threw the ball over Hershon's head. The next play was a fruitless screen pass, and the Crimson lost the ball for good...