Word: soaping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite its occasional soap opera suds (which the acting in no way discourages) the play satisfies in the normal Miller fashion; the message never gets in the way of the entertainment, and the multiplicity of plot complications and the vividly drawn characters are constantly absorbing. The production itself is in line with the high standards of the Loeb Ex so far this year. Jon Terry gives a strong performance as Joe Keller, supremely confident in himself when going through the motions of the American business man but is a flake otherwise. Ellen Olivier is superb as his troubled wife Kate...
...recognizes the need to develop nonpolluting systems of land transportation, for example, and ways of returning garbage directly to the soil. But he urges a return wherever possible to products that are kind to the environment, and suggests the use of natural rubber instead of synthetic material, and soap instead of detergents. That approach would mean the closing down of huge industries and would be immensely costly-at least $600 billion in the U.S. alone, Commoner estimates, or more likely $40 billion annually for 25 years...
...Here is Mike Dann, when he was senior vice president of CBS, asking his underlings for suggestions to keep the network No. 1. Their contributions: "Use soap-opera aspects of Peyton Place in all our daytime promos." "We should get Dick Van Dyke to host Born Free." "Ice shows are doing well. Sullivan can do Holiday...
...cognizance that the TV generation is into games Dick and Jane never played. Fargo North Decoder, is a crack word detective, Easy Reader a hip-talking addict of the printed word, and Julia Grownup a butterfingered TV chef, whose recipes become a kind of primer. There are parodies of soap operas, TV quiz shows (Wild Guess) and the film 2001, but some of the sassiest material seems lifted from the "Chitlin'," or black vaudeville circuit...
Unlike most writers, Wodehouse relaxes first and works later. After a lazy morning, he has lunch-"I don't feel bright until after lunch"-and then, a few minutes before 3:30, drops everything to sit before the TV set and wait for The Edge of Night, a soap opera that, for some inexplicable reason, never fails to enthrall him. At four, Wodehouse begins to write. If he is into a novel, he sits down at his desk with a legal pad and a Royal electric. "I used to be able to get down 2,000 words...