Word: tv
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...aftermath of the convention, TV newsmen were berated by the police and the public as much as the police had been by the media or the hippies and yippies had been by everyone all along...
Northshield dislikes blatant editorializing on TV; he is mildly contemptuous of the kind of thing Eric Severeid does for CBS. But he says with unabashed frankness that "there is no such thing as objectivity in television reporting, not so long as it involves human feelings." And he does not apologize for it. And anyway, the public outcry against the networks was not a reaction against non-objective reporting or the result of a credibility gap between network and public. On the contrary, he says, the outcry resulted from the complete credibility TV has for the public -- the result of merging...
LIKEWISE, Indian, the better and more serious piece, runs amuck. Arnold has failed to see that Horovitz was not writing just a sharp TV script about the brutal terrorization of a non-English speaking alien lost in New York. Rather, this play is foremost a work about communication. Joey and Murph, the two violent toughs, are as lost as the Indian. They find themselves in a world where their mothers are whores, love has no relevance to them, and nothing makes any sense. They must step on a helpless creature, if only to prove to themselves that they are alive...
...Millionairess--Possibly Bernard Shaw's last great play, at any rate one of his funniest. Not to be confused with the movie of the same title, or the now-defunct TV series. At the CHARLES, 76 Warrenton...
Even in this decade where film has become a pedestrian academic, a kid making his first movie discovers it all for the first time, regardless of the countless hours spent watching and studying films in theatres, TV screens, or white walls. He discovers first that working behind a camera is physically exhausting; more traumatic is the realization that making a film with actors is often a ruthless procedure, one which requires making your friends take an awful lot of chances. Once you start, you can only push to the finish and hope that those same friends don't get lost...