Word: tv
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Holy Land since the previous Friday, and, as usual, the trip was part pleasure, part business and part quest. For four years, Pike had been working on a new book on the historical Jesus, and he had recently agreed to make a movie on the subject with TV Star David Frost. Pike had wanted to forage in Jerusalem bookstalls, search for new meanings in the Dead Sea Scrolls, and walk, said his wife, "where Jesus walked...
...consummation, probably in wedlock. Another hopeful outcome is that Play wright Owen is now drafting a sequel: Female of the Species, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Claire Bloom. It is scheduled for NBC in January. Owen refuses to comment on whether NBC has asked them to milk down ("Pastoreize," in TV slang) Female for Americans in this season of censorship...
...high-priced cast was available to TV only because the show was produced by Britain's commercial Incorporated Television Company, Ltd. partially as a benefit for an actors' home, and the stars waived their usual salaries...
...During the past two decades, television has helped reduce attendance at local movie theaters by an estimated 60%, forcing one-fourth of them out of business. Yet, for the past half-year, the cinema-house owners have acted as if their major mission in life were to rescue TV-at least in its present form -from extinction. Moviegoers find SAVE FREE TV inscribed on marquees and are asked to sign petitions to Congress on behalf of the old archenemy. Between pictures, a message flashes onscreen warning about "the monster" out to "charge you for the very TV programs...
...monster under attack is pay-TV, the proposed complement to existing TV service that has been awaiting a final go-ahead from the Federal Communications Commission in Washington since the early 1950s. Pay-television companies would provide subscribers with a special TV-set attachment that decodes scrambled signals to bring such features as Broadway shows, operas and first-run movies. The campaign to slay the monster is led by the National Association of Theater Owners (NATO to the trade) and supported by some projectionists' union locals. Legitimate theaters are not a part of the national association or its fight...