Word: screens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...object of the withdrawal was to demonstrate that the U.S., after its show of the flag in the Eastern Mediterranean, is confident of King Hussein's stability. But, just to make sure, the Pentagon ordered five Sixth Fleet transports, loaded with U.S. Marines and protected by a screen of destroyers, to remain behind for "fire-brigade duty" if the threat of war should flare again...
...impact of the little home screen that Hollywood once scorned made the studios jettison more than half their production schedules, as well as stars, writers, directors-even relatives. It also softened them up for the production deals that give top creative talent between 50% and 75% of a movie's profits. The ill wind has so far blown a windfall of $150 million to the studios for letting their pre-1948 movies go on the air. Except for Paramount, every major studio is also making TV films in earnest. Movie bigwigs curled their lips when such onetime movie performers...
...business is dead, and there is just no place left in town, day or night, where you can count on finding a gathering of well-known movie people." As for fur-bearing TV sets, Teitlebaum has since filled orders to cover them in mink ("Of course, I left the screen showing...
...less able to turn on the excitement that Presley can frequently generate. But Tommy is doing fine without wriggling up to Elvis' loftier heights. In the three months since the Kraft show, Sands has taken the bathos treatment on This Is Your Life, sung on five network shows, screen-tested for a role in Marjorie Morningstar. He gets about 2,000 fan letters a day, has pulled several thousand youngsters into Tommy Sands fan clubs...
Married. Shelley Winters, 34, tough blonde actress of stage (A Hatful of Rain) and screen (A Place in the Sun); and Anthony Franciosa, 28, tantrum-tossing Broadway actor (A Hatful of Rain); she for the third time, he for the second; in Carson City...