Word: studioful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fiumicino story came to my knowledge quite by chance. It was the Aug. 15 Feast of Assumption of Our Lady -an occasion when Rome literally empties itself. A friend, a glass cutter who has a studio near by, and who, like me, owns a motorcycle, proposed that as the roads were empty it would be a good day for a race. We settled on Fiumicino, 18 miles away...
...Studio One (Tues. 9:30 p.m., CBS). Booth Tarkington's Gentle Julia...
...Mesa, Ariz., 1,000 motorists jammed the parking lot outside station KTYL to watch the show going on in what the station claims to be the first drive-in studio...
...Everybody Listening? (MARCH OF TIME; 20th Century-Fox) gives U.S. radio a once-over-lightly treatment with a sharp critical razor. The film achieves a telling effect by letting radio speak for itself-on the theory that there is enough rope lying around any broadcasting studio to hang most of the people responsible for radio. A good deal is accomplished, too, by the unemphatic statement of some familiar but appalling statistics: the suds of soap opera drown out 48% of daylight broadcasting time, and some 20 million U.S. housewives love that suds...
Holdout. Eddie staged a two-month holdout for $5,000 a week, got it after the studio screen-tested hundreds of other pigs, found Eddie irreplaceable. But when the film was run off, Moses Fable "uttered a wild cry of pain." The screen showed a pig implausibly growing smaller as the film went on. The last part of the film had been shot first when Eddie was only half the size he achieved during his two-month strike...