Word: writer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Taboos of the Tube. For writers, too, the Private Eye shows make a socko source of income. For them, the big trick is the art of telling a story without tripping over the plot. The picture on the tube cries for action; the detective who takes time out to think becomes tedious. It was different on radio, says Writer-Producer Dick Carr, a veteran of radio's Richard Diamond and now a writer on TV's Staccato. "In radio you could always use a narrator to tie up the loose ends. I could cover any hour TV show...
Salmon in the Square. The two first teamed up in 1957. Gossage, who had run a successful campaign for Australia's Qantas airlines as a vice president of San Francisco's Cunningham and Walsh, became the firm's writer and thinker; Weiner, who had his own small agency for eleven years, handled the business details and helped kook up the campaigns. For one of their first accounts, Oregon's Blitz-Weinhard brewery, they placed an ad in The New Yorker that read: "Keep Times Square Green! A modest reforestation proposal from Oregon's largest...
From there, Writer Schiff went on to more innuendo: "I wondered why Hoover had lost his head. Why was he so scared? Drawing upon my knowledge of psychology, I decided he must be afraid that something damaging about his private life would be revealed in the series." But, said she piously, the Post had no intention of doing any such thing. At week's end, after four disorganized, unilluminating episodes, the series had produced nothing more damaging than the fact that the director of the FBI, as a boy, sang soprano in the church choir...
...section raised her voice in the dark to cry: "Good heavens, how could Hank have accepted such a role?" There on the screen, prancing awkwardly in mandarin robes, flamenco suits, a clown costume, a silly goatee, was Henry Fonda in the role of Willie Bauché, Hollywood producer-director-writer-actor and the most elaborate phony since the big bad wolf...
...Magician (Swedish). The latest witch's brew-mesmerism, symbolism and sex-concocted by Writer-Director Ingmar Bergman, one of the most intriguing moviemakers now at work...