Word: showings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...censors, these men regularly delete what they consider to be the most offensive cracks from the Sunday evening Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour. With equal regularity, the brothers threaten to quit. Last week, after a prolonged dispute over several parts of the March 9 program, CBS bounced the entire show and substituted a two-month-old rerun. The network claimed that the problem was not controversial content but the fact that the tape had not been presented in time for a Friday screening for affiliated stations...
Producer Tommy Smothers vowed that unless CBS eased up on censorship, he and Dickie would leave the network -only this time the boys sounded serious. Tommy maintains that CBS deliberately harassed him by requesting so many relaunderings of the show that it could not possibly have been completed on schedule; the censors, he claims, demanded that several lines be snipped as late as 2 p.m. on Friday, only 20 minutes before the closed-circuit broadcast. "We are not crying wolf," says Tommy, as usual speaking Dickie's mind as well as his own. "We have threatened to give...
...week's end, CBS confirmed that it plans to go ahead with the Smothers show in the fall season. The network will most likely yield to some of Tom my's complaints, especially since Tommy insists that he would rather quit than fight the censors. "I'm speaking up be cause there's something greater than my feelings involved here. CBS opened the door for us to do this kind of show, and now it looks like they're trying to close it. If they are renewing us, it's not because they want...
...worldwide TV audience had a close-up view of the astronauts when they splashed down and as they emerged from the bobbing spaceship they call Gumdrop. As the Guadalcanal moved to within 100 yards of the spacecraft, TV cameras on the deck zoomed in to show Astronauts David Scott, Russell Schweickart and James McDivitt tumbling into inflated rubber rafts-a surprisingly awkward operation after the precise maneuvers and sophisticated procedure of the space flight...
...ticket costs 80?. No critics are invited. The playgoers are peasants and factory workers. The show is called Grande Pantomima con Bandiere e Pupazzi Piccoli e Medi (Grand Pantomime with Banners and Puppets Small and Medium), and it is a phenomenal theatrical event. On its present tour, which began last October, it has played in 138 different towns and villages of northern and central Italy, mostly on one-night stands, to audiences ranging from 500 to 3,000. Everywhere the reception is astonishing. One evening recently, in the tiny village of San Martino in Fiume, 540 of the 800 inhabitants...