Word: starke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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NAKED AMONG THE WOLVES. The East Germans have made a stark and 'powerful film about a small Jewish boy who is protected from the Nazis by his fellow inmates of Buchenwald...
...problem with TV Director Dick Carson, who is Johnny's 37-year-old brother, nor with Announcer McMahon, who is one of Johnny's closest friends, despite gossip to the contrary. On the other hand, Carson did fire Tonight Producer Art Stark, who was also a close friend and associate for eleven years. Explains McMahon: "Art was more fixed in his idea of the show. Johnny has a freer idea-more explosive." Staffers say that Carson insisted on format changes-chiefly bits that would allow him to get out of his chair for more skits and business with...
Though this particular episode is fiction, occasional rebellion did occur in the death camps. The story of those camps has been filmed with subtler skill in such movies as Night and Fog and The Pawnbroker. But Director Frank Beyer's stark documentary style and the unaffected pathos engendered by his actors-all unknown in the West-underline a truth that bears reiteration. At a time of utmost degradation, man still has the will to endure, and to prevail...
...week, plus a hefty cut of the Tonight earnings, which run to about $20 million in advertising billings a year. Sure enough, Carson won a "substantial" (if not 100%) increase and the authority to make some personnel changes. As a result, Producer Art Stark, who ran the program for 4½ years, will get a new assignment. However, Carson's brother Dick will stay on as director...
Nixon, on the other hand, was a high definition figure, whose features were too stark and hard for television. It was too obvious to the viewer what sort of man Nixon was and this reduced the interest in intensive participation. But if the debates had been broadcast on radio-a medium which requires much less participation than television-Nixon would have won easily...