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onrseaa-iiaripa,feykndLiononTJC-hey the ad«ter-heyler.done?inee raj-theindkator.heant°*VLerup.*««ids«5 tliyHR.•enion«ct.■adleyid.Mt-IvMIKE CONNOLLY:'Arty' Pictures ScheduledHOLLYWOOD - “Open Cityhas given way to the open neckline in European movies. That’s why Hollywood is off and running in 1959 with a whole batch of “arty” pictures aimed at filling the worldwide gap The Europeans who Immediately after World War II let loose on the world such masterpieces as Open City. “Paisan and The Bicycle Thief. have deserted the field. Sex (in the striptease sense) is now rampant in their movies, because it has been bringing more money to the boxoffice.BRIGITTE BARDOT. T) a r r yCowl, and Silvana Pampanim and their open necklines have forced such fine actresses of Europe’s “realistic” school as Francois* Mosay, Maria Schell and Anna Magnani to come to Hollywood for jobs.Hollywood, unable to meet the competition of the brazenly sexy “Bardolators” because of its own production code, is welcoming these fine actresses with open arms—to its own “open city.TWO PICTURES this past year have convinced Hollywood it can beat Europe’s arty boys at their own game. These pictures are “The Defiant Ones and “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.And that’s why Hollywood Is rushing out with pictures whose themes heretofore were considered too censorable for filming: Flaubert’s Salammbo. Faulkners The Sound and the Furv” plus “On the Beach.” The Last Angry Man, “Pillow Talk,’* Spartacus “Blue Denim. The White Kimono.” Middle of the Night,” “The Summer of the lt;Seventeenth Doll” and so many 'other plainspoken projects that “hell” and “damn aren't even aw ear w ords any more.DIANE VARS! W AS knocked off the payroll at Fox, the second time in six months, for refusing to show up for w'ork in “Holiday for Lovers.” It’s reported the young contrnctee is “pulling a Monroe” because none of the three pictures offered her since last July are worthy of the artistic abilities she demonstrated by winning an Oscar nomination for her first movie, ’’Peyton Place.Paul Davis couldn’t find a job in Hollywood after Warner Bros, hired him to play Rot Russell’s stage manager i n “Auntie Marne.” So he went back to New York and got himself a job with Judy Holliday— as the REAL behind-the-scenes etage manager of Judy's Broadway stage musical, Bella Are Ringing.”on a grind policy of six screenings a day to Standing RoomOnly!CHANNEL CHATTER- Chesterfield. after It pulls the rug out from Eddie Fisher, will cut hiialternating star. George Gobel, from fiO minutes to a half-hour.Spurred by the headline#, Screen Gems signed RobertaHaynes and Paul Picerni to star in a segment for its Behind Closed lxrs scries—The Quern oy Story ”Ray Danton started as a romantic leading man in movies but has switched to playing villain* in TV. Youngest guy in the heavy racket told me why: The menace is always the most interesting part. Besides, TV is just ‘throwaway stuff. I’ll go **ck to romantic leads in movies. The end product of TV is to sell soup. The end product of movies is to sell entertainment. I'd rather sell entertainment!BOB DENVER cant finish high school. Fox TV grabbed the16-year-o!d lad out of Loyola High in Los Angeles for the regular role of Dwayne Hickman’* buddy in Hs new familv series, “The Iyyves of Dohie GillisIn the good old days of th* filents they called movie serif* “cliffhangers” because Ruth Roland and Pearl White were usually left hanging over a cHff from one Sat mat to the next. Here we go again In TV: John Frankenheimer will direct a two-part Playhouse 90 televersion of Ernest Hemingway’s “For Whom the Bell Tolls.' It’s tentatively slated to emanage from Gotham March 5 and 11 .Tliere aren't enough hot jaz* fans in Los Angeles to keep it running and that’s why Station KARO TV dropped Bobby Troup* 1 local show. Stars of Jazz. And this despite loud acclaim from local newspaper critics who insisted it should go network.first original mujHcal forWestinghouse - Desihi Plavhouse rolls this week. It's called “TheRing.” ex-MGMusic chief Johnny Green will baton the original Spanish-themed score by Oscar winners Sammy Fain arid Paul Fran-cis Webster, and it’s localed in Majorca.Earth* Kitt is considering a GBvS-TVotive of $75,000 to do three specs this season and at $2VOOO per spec why should theI wanna Be Evil” doii wannabe good?SPEAKING OF Auntie Mam#’ it’s not always true that a smash stage hit has to move out oLj. town before the movie versionSHOOTING SCHEDULES InT\ are ao fast, there isn't time to provide word-for-word dialogue to a!' actors. So Harmon Jones, directing a barroom sequ***’* for a Jefferson Drum segment, told the extras to mumble their own dialogue He had to shoot it over because the mike boom picked up this line from one of the extras In the period piece:' How Ho van think rv
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Palm Springs Desert Sun
Palm Springs, California, US
Fri, Jan 09, 1959
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