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...long last, the grand paladins of television confronted their tormentor, FCC Chairman Newton ("Wasteland") Minow, as the FCC last week came to the scheduled closing round of its three-year investigation of television. First man to step up to the microphone, according to the script, was to be CBS's suave President Dr. Frank Stanton. But in a prologue that could turn into a theme, the FCC first put on the stand one of its economists, Dr. Hyman H. Goldin, who in staggering detail spun out the story of network TV's rich growth from earnings...
...Tony Curtis as a sensitive, "deep"' young man who is forced to play the hero when he wants to be himself; as a sort of noble savage corrupted by civilization. But in the last 50 minutes of the film the interpretation collapses. Ira seems merely what the script at one point calls him: "another drunken Indian." If that is all the moviemakers can make of their subject, they might better have let him rest in peace...
...that preaches salvation through syncopation. The plot, moreover, is a canned arrangement played to death in a dozen previous pictures of this sort: progressive jazzbo (Bobby Darin) goes commercial; loses art, loses heart, loses girl (Stella Stevens); but in the reprise he straightens out and flies right. The script is an anthology of unintentional hilarities. "Just where do I stand," the heroine hollers angrily when the hero advises her to give up sex, "without my body!" The jazz, composed for the occasion by David (Laura) Raksin, is cool and epicene. Actress Stevens is blonde. Singer Darin does not sing...
Ethnologically speaking, it's a wise child indeed who knows his own father. Were the Greeks really the founders of Western civilization? The Greeks themselves looked to Crete, whose earlier Minoan civilization is newly being appreciated with the deciphering of the script called Linear B. As scholars, but few laymen, know, Crete, not Greece, was the land of the myths-of Zeus and the Titans, Prometheus, Hyperion, Orpheus and Hercules. It was on Crete that Daedalus built the labyrinth and Icarus took off for history's first air crash. The vast Palace of Minos, whose foundations were laid...
...Cliffies) write offers to come over and read aloud to us your illegible remarks--we can (officially) read anything, and we may be married. Write on both sides of the page--single-bluebook finals look like less work to grade, and win points. This chic shaded calligraphic script so many are affecting lately is handsome, and is probably worth a good five extra points if you can hack...