Word: supermanic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sized cities as Youngstown, Ohio; Hartford. Conn.; and San Diego, which tend to have more flexible program directors than the rigidly scheduled big-league stations. There are plenty of valid forms of blandishment, and some of them are quite inventive. One promo man in Cleveland dressed up in a Superman costume and climbed a fire escape to the third-floor window of a program director's office so that he could spring inside with his wares. Another managed to pose as a waiter in a program director's favorite restaurant, then served up his "push" single to the program director...
...JUAN IN HELL, by George Bernard Shaw. This is Act III of the four-act Man and Superman. It is usually left out of the play, since it has only a tenuous connection with the rest of the larger work and lasts two hours all by itself. It is a dream sequence set in hell, with four characters out of the legend made famous by Moliere and Mozart: Don Juan; Dona Ana, whose virtue he attempted to assault; the Commendatore, her father, slain by the archseducer; and the devil. In all of English drama, there is no more dazzlingly sustained...
...first time by Roger Moore, star of TV's The Saint -meets a telepathic beauty named Solitaire (Jane Seymour), a black double agent (Gloria Hendry) and the usual assortment of outrageous villains, their seemingly indestructible henchmen and an obstacle course of hazards that would have sent even Superman running for his Valium. "There will be more action packed into these two hours than any other Bond film," brags Director Guy Hamilton...
...things, by being as great an amoralist as one presumes God to be a moralist. He scoffs at fidelity, truth and honor as the manacles of a slave mentality. In his brain, even more than in bed, this great libertine is the precursor of Nietzsche's imagined Superman. Since Bernard Shaw was enamored of the same theme, it is fitting that much of Don Juan reminds one of Shavian dialogue and disputation...
...Juan in Hell. Without benefit of props, costumes or scenery Paul Henried, Ricardo Montalban, Edward Mulhare and Agnes Moorhead sizz'e through George Bernard Shaw's intellectual chatter in an uncommonly brilliant production of "Man and Superman's" long third...