Word: writer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What was intensely irritating about the show was its phony air of spontaneity, with every delighted squeal ("Darling, I haven't seen you in ages'') and every "ad-lib"' joke carefully put down beforehand by veteran Radio-TV Writer Goodman Ace and a staff of three. Typical of the show's calculated coyness was the time Tallulah Bankhead (whose parody of herself is becoming increasingly pathetic) started to tell a joke about some Texans in Paris, only to be cut off by a commercial. Writer-Producer Ace promises that on successive shows a guest will...
...errors in many of these poems, inaccuracies of expression, inconsistencies in metaphor (even louts, when angry, do not grin, etc.) and a rough, amateurish quality in word choice. There is, however, a certain crude gentleness in these poems which may well develop into some thing not displeasing, if the writer becomes more facile in his language...
...Magician (Swedish). The latest witches' brew - mesmerism, symbolism and sex-concocted by Writer-Director Ingmar Bergman, one of the most intriguing moviemakers now at work...
...current fare has everything: Cinemascope, Hypno Vista, a little terror, a little sex, and more laughs than the writer intended. Following a rollicking travelogue through Poland comes a sales pitch on hypnotism by a man we are assured is an eminent Hollywood psychiatrist. The movie we are about to see, he promises us, is a real tiger; within five minutes we're going to be scared silly...
Philip Marlowe (ABC, 9:30-10 p.m.). Writer Raymond Chandler's durable private eye seems tough enough to survive even the indignities of television. Smoothly done a la Peter Gunn, far-out jazz...