Word: tv
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mayor Leland Larrison, 53, appeared on a local TV news show to protect his reputation. Indignantly, he denied a wire service story that he had vowed to rid Terre Haute of prostitution and gambling. The mayor's firm stand in defense of vice raised a modest cheer from gamblers in the upstairs room at the Club Idaho on Hulman Street, and then they went back to their roulette and poker. A sign on the door read...
...play is cleverly staged like a TV contest game. The game, of course, is life, and the unflinchingly ironic viewpoint of Adaptation is that life is a game played on as well as by the contestant. The four actors play many roles: parent, child, teacher, psychologist, husband, wife, in a fiendishly swift journey through the seven ages of man. As a buzzer sounds, the contestants hop from one huge checkerboard square to another. A games master indicates roles, crises and situations, and penalties or bonuses are meted out. The play is a running spoof on psychoanalytical jargon, which has become...
...Joey Bishop Show, and I do a better job hosting than Ed Sullivan does." He is so convinced that the show will be a success (and indeed, the ratings have been remarkably good) that he is already planning 26 more for next season, intends to expand Playboy's TV and movie operations. He is talking about buying a Hollywood studio...
...second season" show, Turn-On. Two computer operators, one white and one black, sit with their backs to the camera facing a madly flashing IBM 360, or something. Says black to white, "I've never programmed a program before." He must be the only second-season TV man in Hollywood who hasn't. By last week, eight midseason replacement shows had made their debuts, and they all looked like print-outs from a stuck computer...
Last week the FCC delivered what could be the heaviest blow of all. By a 6-to-1 vote, the commissioners ruled that all cigarette advertising should be banned from TV and radio. Whether the FCC really has the power to order and enforce such a ban will be decided ultimately by Congress, and perhaps in the courts. Last week's ruling was the opening shot in what shapes up as an incendiary battle that will carry through 1969 and probably beyond...