Word: serializations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Conquest of the Planet of the Apes. The fourth of the series of simian-centered fantasies. The time is 1991, and apes have become the new oppressed of the earth (though the humans shown don't seem much better off). Even the serial aspect is fun, though its also getting drawn out. Paul Dehn again has written a clever script, while J. Lee Thompson, who has become a bona fide yard-goods man, directs mechanically, at the SAXON...
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes. The fourth of the series of simian-centered fantasies. The time is 1991, and apes have become the new oppressed of the earth (though the humans shown don't seem much better off). Even the serial aspect is fun, though its also getting drawn out, Paul Dehn again has written a clever script, while J. Lee Thompson, who has become a bona fide yard-goods man, directs mechanically. Starts Wednesday at the SAXON...
Died. George W. Trendle, 87, creator of The Lone Ranger radio serial; of a heart attack; in Grosse Pointe, Mich. A vaudeville-house owner who switched to radio at the start of the Depression, Trendle sought to turn his struggling Detroit station into a moneymaker with a program that would be "good, clean and long-lived." Hence his Masked Rider of the Plains didn't smoke, swear, drink, fool with women or even kill the bad guys; he did endure and make a fortune for Trendle. The Lone Ranger lasted 20 first-run years on radio and twelve...
Eaton's epic is bristlingly serial and uncompromisingly cerebral. "It finished off eight centuries of musical technique, at least for me," says Eaton. For many listeners Heracles may simply have finished off serialism, suggesting that little more can be done to make that strait-laced and formulistic method of sticking notes together work in operatic terms. Eaton's grasp of musical technique is distinctly impressive, but his sense of theater is so undeveloped it verges on naivete. Heracles' characters discourse at enormous length but never with enough musical depth to make themselves or their arguments convincing. Unlike...
...spokesmen said last night that the demonstrations against the Secretary of the Air Force were intended to dramatize demands that the U.S. end the serial warfare and withdraw from Southeast Asia...