Word: cameramen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Monaco's Prince Rainier left his small pond on the Mediterranean, journeyed to a bigger pool at Gstaad, Switzerland for a vacation with Princess Grace. There he alienated music lovers and continued his vendetta against cameramen by showing up at a concert with Grace ten minutes late, strong-arming a photographer who tried to snap him and his half-sprouted goatee. Then, at intermission, petulant Rainier walked out on Violinist Yehudi Menuhin and Composer Benjamin Britten before a performance of five of Britten's short pieces...
...camera. Manager Graham fumed as outside news photographers elbowed his own cameramen for choice shots. Producer Gimbel exploded because a Dairy Queen station commercial that had been dropped three days earlier got squeezed onscreen by mistake. But Executive Producer John Reddy was happy about all the publicity because the show is only partly sponsored. Perhaps he should take the late Fred Allen's advice and "save money by ordaining the announcer...
...says here," said Malgesto politely, "that you dance the mambo in ballet style." Eda impatiently corrected him: "I dance the mambo in sexy style," dramatically ripped off her robe and with only a G-string to protect her from studio drafts, did her routine. Frantically Paco gestured for his cameramen, but they stood transfixed, and Eda danced inexorably on before the eyes of thousands of Mexicans. When the phones stopped ringing and the censors stopped roaring, Malgesto paid a 5,000-peso fine to the government for purveying obscenity over the air, apologized sheepishly to the nation's mothers...
This week the placidly simple routine is being shattered by the invasion of interviewers, TV cameramen and technicians, all bent on helping the world celebrate the 75th birthday of the 20th century's most influential composer. What the world salutes in Stravinsky, among other things, is a paradox: in his 50 years as a composer, he has been both a popular success and a daring musical explorer, both a commercial artist unafraid of writing for money on assignment (e.g., his Tango for piano solo, his elephants' polka for the Ringling Brothers Circus) and yet an uncompromising individualist. Says...
...sequences, Suchmann is looking for photogenic material. "We want a film of good quality," he explains. Both his cameramen are eminently suited to give him just this. They are Lloyd M. Ritter '50 and Murray L. Lerner '48, who photographed the Oscar-winnings Secrets of the Reef. They have also made a number of movies for television...