Word: tales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES-WORLD PREMIĒRE (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). In Rod Serling's trilogy of strange human relation ships, Night Gallery, each tale focuses on a painting and the people involved with it. The first picture is of a tortured Jew in a concentration camp; Richard Kiley stars as an ex-Nazi. The second features Joan Crawford as an art-collecting blind woman who will do anything for a few hours of sight. The last painting shows first one, then several open graves, after Roddy McDowall decides to hurry the death of his rich uncle...
...VELLUCCI made good use of last week's city council meeting for a little last minute campaigning before Tuesday's council elections. First he called the City Manager over to hear the tale of an East Cambridge family caught in a home where the heating had failed, then grilled the Traffic Director over traffic problems on Third Street and finally wrapped up the evening with his traditional blast at Harvard...
...GYPSY MOTHS. Director John Frankenheimer once more brings courage to the fore in this tale of three stunt parachutists bound together by danger. The story bogs down somewhat in heavyhanded philosophy, but Frankenheimer manages to pull the rip cord in time with a brilliant skydiving sequence...
John Huston, one formerly to whom much honor was due, filmed this woeful tale and even subjected his own daughter to it. Dale Wasserman set it down in words taken by Hans Koningsberger from his own novel, perhaps with a broadsword. Moshe Dayan's son traveled all the way from Israel to take part. These all have conspired together to produce this thing, and all must share equally in the blame. There is, truly, more than sufficient for each...
LaBour went on from there to spin a tale of how the Beatles have hoaxed the world since the "accident." "The surviving Beatles decided to keep the information from the public for as long as possible... Lennon's plan was to create a false Paul McCartney, bring him into the group as if nothing had happened, and then slowly release the information of the real Paul's death to the world via clues secreted in record albums...