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...even for the serious student, the film capital still has its lighter moments. In line of duty, Goodman has turned out in Roman toga to recline on a sofa and eat roast suckling pig at the Sasha's Palate restaurant (TIME, Nov. 30, 1953). He was dutifully present at Michael's Cheesecake Stand in the Los Angeles Farmer's Market in 1951, when Marilyn Monroe was ceremoniously crowned "Miss Cheesecake." And he is willing to testify personally to one epic Goldwynism: "I will never write my autobiography as long as I live...
Sandals & Shooting. Kraft TV Theater also took a flyer at the toga-and-sandal crowd with Whim of Iron, a halfhearted comedy about Byzantine days and nights which came out so ineptly that its author, Michael Dyne, insisted on being identified over the air as "Michael Roberts." Explained Dyne's agent: "That's the only form of protest a writer on television...
...seen on Edward R. Murrow's television program as she traipsed around the globe-e.g., to Formosa, India, Spain. A pixy TV program called Masquerade Party has achieved a clown's gallery of Senators, e.g., Indiana's Republican Senator Homer Capehart came with a Roman toga draped around his aldermanic figure, South Dakota's Republican Senator Karl Mundt and his wife appeared as Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane, Alabama's Democratic Senator John Sparkman (his party's 1952 nominee for Vice President) showed up disguised as a fireman...
...many as three pictures were being shot at once with the same cast. Directors were arrogantly demanding 800 horses for a single scene. Drinking orgies, studio spies and gorgeous villas with swimming pools were the rule of the day. The purple sports shirt had replaced the purple toga, and through the narrow vias where Nero's chariot had clanked, the Jaguars were prowling...
Wrapped in a toga, Thespian Raymond Duncan, brother of the late Dancer Isadora Duncan and now a noisy bundle of energy as Paris' No. 1 actionalist (i.e., "one who does things rather than talking about them"), stalked majestically into Los Angeles and disclosed that he has attained an age (79) where he firmly believes Americans both do and talk too much about their "obsession with sex." And he knows who has debauched them, too. Americans are all hopped up mostly because they are "sexualized over the rotten beliefs of Sigmund Freud...