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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1968
Page
4
Radio and TV guide outlines Flintstones and Daniel Boone as top programs tonight. Includes flyby notes on Batman, Bewitched, Star Trek and top movies like The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. Mentions guests Beth Brickell and live Grand Ole Opry performances in Fort Port.
Sidney Poitier moves from Young rebels in The Blackboard Jungle to playing a London high school teacher in To Sir With Love. The Columbia Technicolor release, produced by James Clavell, pairs Poitier with Judy Geeson and Suzy Kendall in a warm human adaptation of E R Braithwaite's book.
Hollywood star Lana Turner criticizes today’s film market for targeting male audiences and producing lurid content. She refuses to star in explicit pictures, saying she’s not a prude but will not degrade herself or rely on “dirty pictures” to stay in work. The former sweater girl cites scripts she finds vile yet notes producers still cast women in such roles.
Hollywood reports cite Peter Sellers berating Jo Van Fleet and staff on the Warner Bros. Seven Arts production I Love You Alice B Toklas, arriving late, delaying shoots, and provoking crew with unfazed temperament as studios seek efficiency over ego in modern filmmaking.
Top film stars act independently, not tied to a single studio, preventing management like Louis B. Mayer from disciplining them. Judy Garland faced consequences for tardiness to Annie Get Your Gun, while Betty Hutton replaced her.
Off Screen Bob Crane, star of Hogans Heroes, lost his Connecticut Symphony drummer job for jazz touches in a Bach fugue. Stuart Whitman, Cimarron Strip star, bought a bulldozer to become a freelance lot-leveler. Jackie Gleason travels 55,000 miles in a limousine but has not driven beyond Fort Lauderdale. Irene Ryan from The Beverly Hillbillies was expelled for singing in an amateur contest. Jill Townsend, also on Cimarron Strip, toured British stages with Guinness Coward Olivier.
The American black bear Ben from CBS TV's Gentle Ben has a curious appetite for syrupy pum pernickel bread topped with vanilla ice cream.
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