Word: stunts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...something of a stunt when British TV Director Philip Saville went to Denmark's Elsinore Castle to make a television Hamlet, starring Christopher Plummer. Going to Greece to film Oedipus the King in an ancient amphitheater is also a gimmick, but it has paid off better. The stones of the theater at Dodona and the sere Greek hills behind them grandly evoke the atmosphere in which Sophocles himself saw his great tragedy performed. The local peasant faces among the extras give an authenticity to the hoi polloi that makeup men could never have managed...
Andrew Heiskell, chairman of the board of Time, Inc., unveiled the stunt--a Time, Inc. parody of a Lampoon parody of Life Magazine--at a morning press conference in the Situation Room of Time-Life building in New York. "Our parody-parody is a bold step forward in journalism," Heiskell said. "It should silence those Cambridge yellow-necks for good...
...protest the stunt Lampoon members will roll a six-foot replica of a birth-control pill from Harvard Square to the Boston Common. On the Common, LaFarge explained, they will detonate the pill to dramatize the Lampoon's "angry dissatisfaction with parody-parodies of Life...
Associate Editor Bob Jones, who wrote the Essay, says that he always spits on the bait when he goes fishing, and he insists the stunt pays off. As for Senior Editor Bob Shnayerson, for years he kept a tattered grey sweater in his office and wore it whenever he worked on major stories. This week the sweater disappeared and Bob worried all the while he edited the Essay. "Lost," he kept muttering. "All lost...
What is least important about this small, fierce novel is that it is a brilliant stunt-a male author staying undetected, for the length of a book, in the mind of a female main character. Brian Moore does not pull off his wig and bow, nor is there any impulse to applaud. Applause, of course, would mean that the deception had failed. It is, in fact, successful, and Moore earns, with great cleverness, a distinction that many writers are born with-that of being judged as a lady novelist...