Word: shots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Look Back in Anger will go down in history for leading British drama out of the drawing room and into the rooming house, for giving it a good shot of O'Neill-Miller-Williams influence, and for varying its genteel decorum with a rude, poignant intensity and a new relevance to both current and recurrent human concerns. But the analogous revolution for British movies has already been accomplished by Room at the Top, and the film version of John Osborne's play appears as a good piece of work in an established genre of sex-and-the-class-struggle movies...
...Podola case began last July 13, when Podola, 30, allegedly shot and killed a London cop who was trying to question him about a shakedown charge. Cornered three days later in his shabby South Kensington room, Podola was brought out to a police car looking considerably the worse for wear. Two policemen were half dragging him by the arms, and a third walked just ahead as if to keep him from pitching forward. His head was covered with a sack...
TOILET TISSUE. "One commercial which showed an attractive woman purchasing and storing toilet tissue was in excellent taste until the moment she tore the tissue in a close-up shot...
...picture of its mysterious backside-a feat considerably more difficult than simply hitting it. Its timing may not be so good as that of Lunik II, which hit the moon just before Khrushchev's arrival in the U.S. (just a lucky break, said Khrushchev). But the U.S. moon shot's target date is early October-just before President Eisenhower is scheduled to visit Russia...
Tues., Sept. 29 The Many Loves of Doby Gillis (CBS, 8:30-9 p.m.). Max Shulman's hot-shot teen-ager is right up with the times. He even has a beatnik pal. But anybody who loves money, cars and girls cannot be all bad. The Caper at the Bijou gives the new series a fresh start...