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Television sportscasters, in short, are still a long way from mastering the art of the zipped lip. It is this familiar fact that has legions of sports fans eagerly looking forward to a special telecast of a football game that NBC has promised for Saturday, Dec. 20. The teams and site (Jets vs. Dolphins at Miami) are of little importance compared with the radical innovation that will be the main attraction: the absence of the usual game commentary. Thus the telecast will offer-and here Sports Columnist Red Smith leads the cheers-"no banalities, no pseudo-expert profundities phrased...
...Multiflex goes national on Christmas Day, as Crimson grid coach Joe Restic directs the offensive campaigns of the Union forces in the annual Blue-Grey all-star game, which will be telecast over national television. Crimson stalwart Brian Buckley will reportedly start at quarterback, and Mike Durgin and Chuck Durst will see action as well...
Nothing underlined official concern at midweek more vividly than an extraordinary telecast of a recorded sermon by Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski. As head of Poland's Catholic hierarchy, a bastion of antiCommunism, the 79-year-old prelate had traditionally been denied access to the state broadcasting network...
...Space Odyssey a week after its release in 1968, and three minutes from The Shining after its opening this May. Robert Altman planned an eight-hour Nashville saga for ABC, and Martin Scorsese hoped to restore many of the sequences cut from New York, New York for telecast on NBC; so far, neither dream has been fulfilled. Bernardo Bertolucci is a compulsive tinkerer. After the release of Last Tango in Paris, Critic Pauline Kael complained to him that one of the best paragraphs in her review described a sequence that Bertolucci...
...real chance at regaining the ratings championship it lost to ABC in early 1976. Since the two networks are now in a dead heat, they are unleashing an arsenal of stunts before the season officially ends April 20. ABC has moved up the annual Academy Award telecast (April 14) to an earlier starting hour, 9 p.m. E.S.T., so that more of that perennial ratings juggernaut will play during prime time. ABC will also rerun the hit movie The Sting on April 20, ahead of schedule. Not to be ambushed, CBS has slipped in Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones...