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...Taste of Honey. Playwright Shelagh Delaney's story of a wise child in the Lancashire slums who knows her own mother and is determined to know herself. Rita Tushingham makes the heroine a kind of Oliver Twist in a maternity dress...
Unpadded, Rita Tushingham weighs about 120 lbs. and looks like a soft rubber toy. She is signed for five more pictures, but there are no scripts, and no one knows exactly what she will do. She has a problem because she is now a star and cannot do the small parts that she needs for experience, nor are there many starring parts for little female elves with big wide eyes...
...that had $30,000 in debts and maybe six or seven pap-happy listeners. Changing its call letters to WFMT, they began to play interesting music and talk about things that a child of 3½ probably could not understand. It was risky and somewhat revolutionary, and Bernard and Rita Jacobs thought for a while that they were failing...
Breaking into a broadcast not long after the takeover, Rita Jacobs said, "We wonder if anybody's listening-we're going broke." People were listening, and their number was multiplying. By last week, WFMT had the largest audience of any FM station in the U.S., an average 800,000 weekly. But more significantly, it is successfully competing with AM. While FM is often thought of as something like a worthy charity or an obscure quarterly magazine, WFMT last year grossed $400,000-more than $80,000 of which was profit...
...Taste of Honey. Playwright Shelagh Delaney's story of a wise child in Lancashire slums, who knows her own mother and is fearlessly determined to know herself. Rita Tushingham makes the heroine a kind of Oliver Twist in a maternity dress...