Word: watching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...WATCH Cannon. I organize my social calender around it. It is as well made as any number of movies, and it is consistently well made. Wednesday's episode suffered a bit from banality, but is sure had everything else. The fat man is my idea of a detective, and the media barons have improved on standard fare, by making their detective overweight, leisurely, and in no particular need of the work. There is much Philip Marlowe in what remains, though. Frank Cannon is direct, dry and witty. He also holds on to the Marlowe notion of moral involvement...
...symbolized the beginning of an uncertain new period in the relations between the democratic-capitalist and the Communist worlds. At the same time, the admission ceremonies underlined East Germany's sense of inferiority to West Germany-the Germany in the eyes of most of the world. People who watch such things closely noted that as gray-haired, gray-suited Otto Winzer, the East German Foreign Minister, was led to his seat by the U.N. Chief of Protocol, there were 15 seconds of applause. A minute later, West German Foreign Minister Walter Scheel was given 32 seconds of cheers...
During the annual Leipzig Trade Fair, a favorite pastime of citizens is to stand on street corners and watch the visiting Western cars. Otherwise scrupulously honest, the East German has no qualms about stealing the distinctive star that adorns every Mercedes hood...
...Dassault Mystère 20 carrying Love Empress Elizabeth Taylor, 41, touched down at Spain's San Sebastian airport in plenty of time for the star to make the local premiere of her movie Night Watch. But there was the problem of the car: it wasn't the regulation Rolls. And then, she had to make a call to Los Angeles. Finally, she had to put on her green and gold sari to prepare herself for the adulation of her fans. But the crowd, whom she had kept waiting for 90 minutes, had other ideas. They booed, hissed...
...past 20 years, notes Landau, movie attendance has plummeted from 80 million a week to 14 million. Many of the absent 66 million are simply staying home to watch TV, but some others, Landau argues, constitute a "special audience who were not getting what they wanted" at the movies. "There is an enormous thinking public that wants something else," says the enthusiastic Katharine Hepburn, "and this is what we hope to capture...