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Longtime viewers fondly recall the programs of TV's alleged Golden Age, the '50s. A more realistic nostalgia has grown up around the era's scruffy, fevered atmosphere backstage. The film My Favorite Year offered peephole glimpses of those times; now Max Wilk, a noted historian of popular art, revisits the terrain in A Tough Act to Follow. His acerbic novel blends reverie with naked rage at conniving, screen-deep program executives who have displaced the medium's pioneers. Although some secondary characters and events are real, Wilk focuses on an imaginary comedian, Jody Cassel, natural star and born victim...
...game-wining goal, capitalizing on mistakes in the Crimson defense, Bruin fullback Ted Croft dribbled out of the Brown half and launched a long cross toward the Harvard goalmouth. Goalkeeper Phil Coxigan hesitated, then came off his line to try to intercept the pass. But Brown forward John Wilk, running unmarked, beat him to the hall and headed it into an empty net for the tally...
Directed by RICHARD WILLIAMS Screenplay by PATRICIA THACKRAY and MAX WILK...
...major assistance was a makeshift radio network that stitched together the community. When Wilkes-Barre station WILK was knocked out by power failure, nearby FM station WYZZ took over round-the-clock broadcasting of emergency news, aided by WSCR of Scranton. Public service announcements alternated with appeals for news of missing persons, directions for physicians and instructions on where to send food, clothing, bedding and money for refugees. Adding to flood damage in the city was a series of fires that could be fought only by chemical-spraying helicopters: fire trucks could not reach the scene. Most buildings burned...