Tinsel Town; Tinsel Teeth; Saturday Review

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TINSEL TOWN (continued)

     So more Hollywood articles.

20 December 1963, LIFE, pg. 90: Pixville gets a stiff blow from overseas.

23 September 1967, SATURDAY REVIEW, pg. 70, col. 1:  HOLLYWOOD, it has often
been said, is not really a place, but a state of mind; and for those who now
work in the movie business, this has become particularly true.

13 March 1971, SATURDAY REVIEW, pg. 52:  "SUNSET OVER THE FABLE FACTORY."

October 1972, ESQUIRE, pg. 116:  "Los Angeles Is the Best Place in America."
(No important nicknames in long story--ed.)

25 November 1974, NEWSWEEK, pg. 71, col. 2:  It's a mining town in lotus
land...It's a good place for toughies.  (RHHDAS has 1980 for "Lotus
Land"--ed.)
25 November 1974, NEWSWEEK, pg. 72, col. 1:  "Mini-majors" like CBS's Cinema
Center Films and National General Pictures have disappeared.
25 November 1974, pg. 73, col. 1:  The surprise is, that there are so few
gilt-edged stars--"the bankables," as they are often called.

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TINSEL TEETH (continued)

     From the NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE, 14 April 1974, pg. 54, col. 2:

     Are the ubiquitous "railroad tracks" simply a reflection ofthe current
mania of a dazzling TV smile?

     Pg. 57, col. 2:

     And finally, if you have decided to give up summer camp or the trip to
Spain for the smile that may launch the Staten Island ferry, prepare yourself
(or little Arthur) for many months of those endearing epithets: "brace face,"
"zipper mouth," "tinsel teeth," or what may be, by then, "plastic puss."

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SATURDAY REVIEW

     I checked some of 1965 and 1966 of the SATURDAY REVIEW.

10 July 1965, pg. 59, cols. 2-3 cartoon:  ONE STEP FORWARD, TWO STEPS BACK.
(President LBJ dances with "A Stable Government in Santo Domingo"--ed.)

17 July 1965, pg. 59, col. 1:  Publish or Perish.  (Opinion by Henry
Wriston--ed.)

31 July 1965, pg. 30, col. 1:  ..."rip and read" operations--announcers tear
wire-service bulletins off press tickers and read them without change into
microphones.  WINS is different.  (The headline is "All the News All the
Time"--ed.)

7 August 1965, pg. 14, cols. 1-2 cartoon:  "Please say something in
corporatese."

14 August 1965, pg. 53, col. 3:  The Way It Was.  (Continued on pag. 56, col.
3 as "The Way It Is."  Compare to CBS newsman Walter Cronkite's "that's the
way it is"--ed.)

28 August 1965, pg. 12, col. 3:  _Sharps and Flat:_ Medicine is faced with
another baffling new disease.  It's called "Something."  I don't know the
Latin name for it.  It occurs in the winter mostly, and when you telephone
the doctor to describe it to him, he says, "Oh, yes, there's Something going
around.  Take two aspirin and phone me again in the morning."

28 August 1965, pg. 15, col. 3:  Mostly Mr. Jack (It Takes One to Know One)
Leonard...

2 October 1965, pg. 39, col. 1:
_A Hot Property_
_A hilarious insight into what happens to a novel kissed by Hollywood_
By HERBERT MITGANG
     A "PROPERTY" is a book that has made good in "the industry."  To
Hollywood, there is only one "industry"--itself.  And the highest honor that
the industry can confer is to consider a novel a "property."

16 October 1965, pg. 102, cols. 2-3 cartoon:  "Come on down!"  (Predates THE
PRICE IS RIGHT.  Two aliens watch tv in the spaceship, which is headed "down"
to earth.  A tv person--with palm trees beside him--is probably promoting
Florida--ed.)

13 November 1965, pg. 89, col. 1:
_PRESERVING THE NEWS THAT'S FIT TO PRINT_
By JOHN ROTHMAN, editor of the New York Times Index
     WHEN PEOPLE REFER to the _New York Times_ as "the newspaper of record,"
what they usually have in mind is either the almost limitless scope of its
news coverage or its conscientious publication of the full texts of many
important documents--treaties, speeches, legislation, judicial decisions,
even the transcripts of Presidential press conferences and of Congressional
hearings.
     The _Times_, however, is a newspaper of record also in quite another
sense.  While reporting today's events, it is recording them for the future;
the news set down today for tomorrow's readers is preserved and compiled for
future generations, for all time.  "The record" in this sense is the vast
store of information, of incalculable value, that is created when today's
newspaper is added to those of yesterday and all the preceding yesterdays to
form a continuous, detailed, all-encompassing day-by-day history of mankind.

4 December 1965, pg. 93, cols. 1-2 cartoon:  "They'll never believe me.  Who
ever heard of a dog eating a draft card?"

25 December 1965, pg. 12, col. 1:  But after that I got 102 per cent
cooperation.

1 January 1966, pg. 25, cols. 2-3:  DO UNTO OTHERS BEFORE THEY DO UNTO YOU
(Cartoon sign behind an executive's desk--ed.)

8 January 1966, pg. 90, col. 1:  Overhead tracks on the new transit
system--Getting there is half the fun.  (Photo caption--ed.)

12 February 1966, pg. 8, col. 1:  IN THE muddle lexicon of television, "The
Second Season" is a misleading misnomer for the second half-season after a
misadvised first half-season of misgotten mishap.  So, after an appropriate
and laborious period of gestation, the ABC Network, which coined "The Second
Season,"...
     Briefly, then, _Batman_ is described as "high camp," hip translation of
"tongue in cheek."

12 February 1966, "All the Way to the Bank," pg. 16, col. 3:  He recognizes
the truth about himself in the modern-world, applauds it, and allows
_Batman's_ producers to laugh all the way to the bank.

5 March 1966, pg. 12, col. 2:  Other "talk" shows, however, are springing up
all over the country.  (Pg. 13, col. 1 for "'talk' station"--ed.)

19 March 1966, pg. 16, col. 1:  ...the way the price of Big Telephone
(AT&T--ed.) has been dropping on the Big Board.