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...play, Flamingo, telecast on last week's Danger, was written by Steve Allen. The music for the featured song, Forbidden Love, was composed by Steve Allen. The leading man: Steve Allen. Allen admits to even greater versatility: "I can play the tuba, make up songs from any four notes struck at random, and do a lot of stupid little things like a tap dance with my fingernails." In addition, Allen records bebop fairy tales, is writing a novel ("It's about the crackup of a marriage"), is working on a critical analysis of his fellow TV comics ranging...
Even though many big news stories are telecast, publishers no longer fear TV as a threat to daily newspaper circulation. They have decided that TV, if it does anything for them, whets rather than dulls readers' appetites for printed news. But for working newspapermen, TV is often an obstruction to good reporting. Last week, writing in the International Press Institute's monthly Report, the New York Times's able United Nations correspondent. A. M. Rosenthal. told why. The trouble, wrote Rosenthal, is that TV "is not interested primarily in news but in entertainment," and it requires...
TELEMETER, Paramount Pictures' device for bringing first-run movies and special events to tele viewers, will shortly get its first test (and the first test of any method of telecasting first-run movies). In Palm Springs, Calif., 400 homes will see a feature film the same night it is premiered in movie houses. Viewers will drop coins into their sets to "unscramble" the telecast, which cannot be received on an unmetered...
...Regular telecasting will begin Sept. 11, with each station using its own staff and studios (but sharing the same transmitter atop Mount Toro). The stations will telecast a combined total of 85 hours a week -splitting the week nights and taking Sundays by turn. Four other share-time permits have been granted to stations in Rochester, N.Y., Minneapolis-St. Paul, Phoenix, and Kansas City...
...telecast last week, Democratic Boss Kenneth Sutherland of Brooklyn took exception to the term "political boss." His suggested substitute: "political managing director...