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...Chris Noel was dropped from CBS's forthcoming comedy series Pistols and Petticoats, with the explanation that she "pretested" badly. Every time blonde and buxom Chris came on-camera during the screening, there was an inexplicable plunge in the graph line that records the composite reaction of the button pushers. Similarly, negative readings caused the jettisoning of an entire subplot from Pistols and Petticoats, and the replacement of ten other projected series performers. The previewers have even assumed script control over ABC's new That Girl. Bowing to the graphs, producers have ordered rewrites that will emphasize...
...thing to have been a bad actress, which I know I wasn't, or to have someone like the producer tell me he didn't like me. But why should some jerk they dragged in off the street have the right to push a button and say whether or not I should play in the series?" Veteran Producer Herbert (The Defenders) Brodkin wonders: "How you would enjoy a Broadway show if at every moment you were conscious of having to push a button or turn a dial...
...summer school girl know who is a Harvard man and who isn't, so she can bat her eyelashes at the right guys? One enterprising Harvard man has found the answer--a button that tells...
...ultimate in snob appeal," said Daniel R. Bronson '67, a friend of Nightingale's and a proud toter of the button, "or it is a desperate attempt to seek one's own level...
...theory, no one can get a button unless he can prove that he indeed does go here in the winter. "We're checking." Nightingale said, "but we're not too worried about it." In practice, It's yours if the price is right...