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...Prime Minister to pin-neat Tammany Hall Boss Carmine De Sapio ("Carmine-I was just telling the Prime Minister here about you . . ."). His balding head glistening, the flower in his buttonhole lazily depetaling, Nehru wadded his white handkerchief in his hand, rose to deliver softly a slumbrous sermon (viz., leadership must compromise, else it becomes defeated) that was as uninformative as it was long (and brought evident drowsiness to a few of his neighbors, including chief foreign-policy lieutenant, Krishna Menon...
...from Del Rio (Robert L. Jacks; United Artists) is a conventional western with a more or less conventional moral, viz., if you try to run a gunman out of town when the wrist of your gun hand is broken, be sure the scriptwriter is on your side. In this one, Actor Quinn plays a gunman who arrives in a one-saloon town and, in a remarkably short time, ventilates three bad men. The good citizens promptly name him sheriff, presumably on the theory that it is better to have a bad sheriff who can shoot fast than a good...
...censors: four of the several references to Billie as a "broad" had to go. Anything that might be construed as a reference to mental illness was also cut: "crazy broad" became "dizzy broad." "Off her nut" became "blow her stack." Suggestions of physical impairment were primly deleted, viz., Billie, trying on her glasses, to Harry: "What's so funny? That I'm blind practically?" Network censors thought the most offensive line was Billie's explanation of Harry's objection to her work as a chorine: "He likes to get to bed early." The TV version...
...movies, according to the code, cannot do. NBC censors did pressure Wyler to "change a few 'hells' and 'My Gods'." The line, "A woman he had relations with," became "A woman with whom he had a relation." But Wyler refused to tamper with key bits, viz., "He tried to rape me so I shot him." Snorted he: "What are you going to say-'He tried to make love to me so I killed him'? Big laugh...
...announcing that 43 Hollywood stars would appear on his show, he made good use of the well-established principle that the more Hollywood stars promised on a TV show, the more viewers the show will draw. He made even better use of the principle's incontrovertible corollary−viz., the quality of a TV show varies inversely with the number of Hollywood stars on it and the time they stay around. Sullivan's solution of the problem (how to get his viewers tuned in with the magic of a lot of big names...