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Last week the producers found a solution to both problems. Into the script they had the show's writers insert a scene in which Jeff's life is unceremoniously snuffed out-and with it Rydell's career in As the World Turns. This week Jeff is scheduled to die in an automobile accident, thrown from the wreckage of his car out onto the rainy highway. Said the show's producer, smiling over Jeff's lifeless form: "A loved one passes-it's good for the story...
Extra Cats. Negroes do not want parts that would be visually ludicrous or uncomfortable. Casting a Negro in a romantic movie opposite a white star would unquestionably demand that the script explain his presence, if not concentrate on it. A Negro actor playing the part of a president of a major corporation would probably require "white face" to be realistic-a clearly ridiculous possibility. But many roles remain: doctors, detectives, soldiers, salesmen-all the postures and places in which a Negro might logically expect to find himself. "The actors are there, they're waiting, they could...
Strangers in the City is a brilliantly abrasive social shocker about a Puerto Rican family living in the rat-infested lower depths of Manhattan's Spanish Harlem. Rick Carrier's script, cast, and camera work have a harsh-grained honesty...
...Mosley rally on the same street last week, the script was little changed. First came some 30 members of Mosley's neo-Fascist Union Movement, chanting: "Jews out! Jews out!" When Leader Mosley appeared, the jeering crowd surged toward him and knocked him to the ground. Struggling to his feet, the 65-year-old sometime M.P. mounted an open truck amid a hail of rotten fruit and heavy English pennies (which were seldom so wasted in Depression days). Before he could open the meeting, the brawl was on. Within minutes, Mosley was led away under heavy police escort, while...
Strangers in the City is a brilliantly abrasive social shocker about a Puerto Rican family living in the rat-infested lower depths of Manhattan's Spanish Harlem. Rick Carrier's script, cast, and camera work have a harsh-grained honesty...