Word: staccatos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...some variation of Cops & Robbers. Police detectives practice their profession on the networks only a few hours a week; it is the civilian shamus who lays down by far the heaviest barrage. At least 15 of the Private Eyes now visible have survived other seasons; the four newcomers-Staccato, Philip Marlowe, Bourbon Street Beat, Hawaiian Eye-came on behind a resounding drum roll of publicity. On the ABC network alone there are twelve detective shows, three of them back-to-back on Friday nights...
...without tripping over the plot. The picture on the tube cries for action; the detective who takes time out to think becomes tedious. It was different on radio, says Writer-Producer Dick Carr, a veteran of radio's Richard Diamond and now a writer on TV's Staccato. "In radio you could always use a narrator to tie up the loose ends. I could cover any hour TV show today in one half-hour of radio with the use of narration. The hour TV show has room for only a half-hour of ideas...
Appearing successively in three filmy, billowy gowns, Actress Bergner played on her audience with the familiar, huskily resonant voice (she practiced in her hotel room, crying sharp, staccato "ha, ha, ha's" up and down the scale), the erectly graceful carriage, the suddenly confiding smile. In stunned silence, the audience watched her run the gamut from regal pride to jaded irony to a kind of enervated despair. Said a damp-eyed Bergner in her dressing room afterward: "Most of the generation who used to know me are dead or disappeared. It's so terribly touching...
...Creative Act. Pasternak was influenced by an esthetic movement in Russian poetry that rebelled against the didactic, social-protest verse of the late 19th century. He was briefly drawn to the "Futurists." with their sprung rhythms and staccato, telegraphic style. But in many ways he also harks back to the English romantics. With them-Blake, Shelley, Keats-Pasternak sees nature as the handwriting on God's wall, or at least as the outward sign of an unseen and perhaps mystical order of things. And with the romantics, Boris Pasternak shares the belief that the creative imagination is itself divine...
...Staccato (NBC, 8:30-9 p.m.). As one of the new private eyes, Johnny Staccato (Actor John Cassavetes) spends 30 seconds at the piano, 30 minutes stalking Dean Stockwell, who plays a bartender suspected of hunting his free lunch with a pocket knife on the sidewalks of Greenwich Village...