Word: screening
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...around the port of Pusan. But the picture was not totally dark. The U.S. forces had seized unqualified command of the air, would hold it unless Russia directly intervened. The South Korean forces, chewed up and demoralized by the enemy's first onslaught, were regrouping behind the U.S. screen. East of the Osan-Chonan sector, where they had only Red infantry to fight against, the South Koreans were beginning to achieve some success. The arrival at week's end of U.S. medium tanks and heavy artillery was an enormous boost for U.S. morale...
...Princeton, Ring Jr. began to boil too, and higher than his father ever did. He joined the Socialist Club, wangled a trip to Russia as an exchange student. A friend got him a job in Hollywood. Ring ground out B pictures, and busied himself with organizing the Screen Writers' Guild...
Something Important. His career prospered and his salary increased. So did his political activities. Said a fellow writer: "You have a bunch of talented, sensitive writers who get no ego satisfaction out of their work. A story comes out on the screen a couple of years later bearing almost no relation to what they wrote. They only work about half a year, yet they want to feel that they're doing something important. So they take up the cause of the proletariat...
...Bergman-Rossellini romance-e.g., the torrid ads promising "Raging Passions . . . This is it! . . . Bergman . . . under the inspired direction of Rossellini." To halt further public exploitation of Hollywood's moral lapses, Johnson introduced a Senate bill which in effect called for the Government to police the off-screen behavior of all motion picture performers (TIME, March...
Love That Brute (20th Century-Fox) tries to duplicate the success of 1941's gangster comedy, Tall, Dark and Handsome. In fact, it gives screen credit to the scripters who wrote the original. The carbon copy seems too flimsy for 1950s moviegoing tastes...