Word: viewer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...happiest beneficiaries of Watergate's popularity are Public Broadcast System stations, whose budgets were curbed at White House insistence and whose survival depends on viewer contributions. The nationwide network has received almost $1.5 million in donations since the hearings began. New York's WNET alone has collected $245,000, with gifts still pouring in. Said James Karayn, president of the National Public Affairs Center for Public Television, which produced the P.B.S. coverage of Watergate: "Nixon vetoed our bill, cut our funding. Now he's given us our best programming. It's sort of like being reborn...
...much for the bombast of one viewer who for ten years has hated to see this medium wasted. Maybe next week there will be some programs to talk about...
...certainly not disappointed with one aspect of their work. The Digest had obviously spared no expense while recreating the Missouri of Tom Sawyer's day. The Digest and the film's director, Don Taylor, exercised every effort to capture for the viewer the flavor of life along the Mississippi. Painstaking care had been taken to assure that every minute detail was consistent with the word images of the original book. Taylor made excellent use of the Panavision wide screens by means of some dramatic aerial photography that emphasized the breathtaking width of the Mississippi. But dramatic, breathtaking, and expensive photography...
JOHNNY WHITTAKER, formerly Jody on CBA Television's Family Affair, performs the title role quite well, technically speaking. Yet he never completely convinces the viewer that he really is the mischievous character that Twain described. In fact, on the contrary, Whittaker's Sawyer is a rather cocky and not always likeable fellow. Jeff East, however, portraying Tom's sidekick Huckleberry Finn, does a much more admirable job of presenting an image of the slightly reckless, adventure-loving boy of whom Twain wrote...
...Dillinger (the latest cop-out gangster chronicle), written and directed by John Milius, the viewer learns nothing about John Dillinger himself. Dillinger is not developed either as man or myth (although the movie is loaded with pretentious hints at the greatness of his legend). Instead, we merely see a series of overly bloody shoot-outs and Dillinger's eventual death. But we knew from the start that he would die in the end--what we really wanted to know was what Dillinger was truly like...