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...trade covetously calls "the Gleason treatment." Like Jackie Gleason on CBS, Davis will have control of the show's entire budget; as executive producer he will be free to hire and fire whomever he pleases, pay the sal aries, name everyone from the guest stars to the script girl...
With their Avco 1790 computer humming through thousands of responses on a quiet street in Wilmington, Tarr, Crump, and Ginsburg seem anxious to get on to other things. For instance, there are the 200 page movie script and 30 capsule plots for a T.V. situation comedy that Crump's roommate, John P. Bochner '66, has written on the match theme. Ginsburg is Bochner's agent, and he is now trying to get both the movie and the T.V. series produced. From the "fabulous contacts". Tarr says were established throughout the country this summer, the corporation is beginning to inundate...
...From the script alone I couldn't tell whose side Giraudoux was on. And I wasn't even left with that everybody-loses-most-of-the-time wistfulness one feels at the end of most of those. Nineteenth Century demi-tragedies where everybody loses. My only strong emotion was that Lucille was a pretty stupid girl...
...paeans to the pleasures of walking, gardening, solitude, work and old age; recollections of her favorite performances-all interspersed with illustrative passages from her favorite authors. The book has already, prepublication, sold some 75,000 copies, but when he gets it, the reader may find that, speaking without a script, Helen has little...
...problem is that Michael Cacoyannis has unforgiveably tried to wring emotion from a stone-dry script, presumably to titillate the crowd in the Broadway bleachers. In imitation of Luther, or perhaps even The Sound of Music, Cacoyannis punctuates the play with obnoxious Gregorian chant. His minor characters, whom Whiting wisely kept undeveloped to preserve focus, become caricature roles of great distraction. Cacoyannis also revives The Trojan Woman by turning the Ursuline Nuns into a Greek chorus...