Word: wolfs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...slightly less hectic now that the shows are taped. But a complete show must still be rehearsed, blocked and taped within twelve hours. Actors frequently call each other by their real names on-camera or get so confused by stage blocking that they walk through fake walls. Says Art Wolf, a director of Another World, the most elaborate soap: "The most difficult thing is putting an hour show together so fast." World has 37 sets, a live band and a discotheque; logistics alone requires a small army of a crew. The action is reminiscent of early Hollywood...
...vampires had taken over. In 1897, a London theatrical manager named Bram Stoker published a book called Dracula. It became the most popular story of the supernatural ever written. Uninformed about vampires, Stoker baldly invented his own lore of the undead-how a vampire changes at will into a wolf or a bat, cringes in terror at the sight of a Christian cross, and lives forever unless a wooden stake is driven through its heart...
Since the '30s, the quality of horror has steadily deteriorated. Hollywood milked the market by offering two monstrosities for the price of one (Frankenstein Meets Wolf Man) and finally turned the grand old ghouls into shambling straight men for the giggle brigade (Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein). In the '50s, and '60s, horror was further debased by Britain's Hammer Productions, which starred Christopher Lee in blood-splotched shockers. Their strongest claim to originality was the introduction of the crimson contact lens...
Great Performances and In Performance at Wolf Trap (PBS). The Fifth Freedom-freedom from yammer-is eloquently defended in programs that do not educate us about music or sell it to us, but offer it well performed without self-congratulation or apology...
Such snarls have won Deeb, TV and radio critic for the Chicago Tribune, a reputation as the wolf-man of the air waves−the sourest, crudest ravager of the medium since Spiro Agnew put away his thesaurus. Deeb's daily diatribes, now syndicated to 60 papers, do not merely dissect new shows but also provide inside accounts of broadcast-industry greed, timidity and assorted other failings. Deeb has described lavish network press junkets in embarrassing detail, disclosed power struggles at local stations, and even exposed the suppression of an abortion documentary at WON, the Trib...