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Friday, January 28, 1966
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By RABBI SAMUEL SILVER
(A Seven Arts Feature
The movies were spoiled for
me when I was a youngster be
cause I was constantly being
puzzled and thus distracted from
the plot, if there
were plots.
I could never
understand why
men who were
not good-look-,
ing could not\
win a girl. As I
grew up and
discovered that
I did not meet
the standards of
cinematic handsomeness I be-
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came fearful that I would never
become interesting to a girl.
As a result, my sympathy was
always with the fellow who miss
ed gettting the heroine, and it
distressed me to see how often
that unlucky one met a tragic
end. ^
I was also perplexed by the
fact that the villains had mus
taches. I got the impression from
the movies that a mustache was
synonymous with villainy.
Inasmuch as my father, then
and still today, is one of the
world’s gentlest men and the
husband of a fine-looking woman
to boot, had a mustache, the
movies were more bewildering
than bemusing to me.
Another thing that troubled
me was the indifference towards
corpses ,in the movies. In the
cowboy pictures, individ u a 1 s
would be shot down and other
characters would be shown stand-
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eavesdropped on a cowboy movie
being watched by my own young
sters and, sure enough, there
was this body lying there,
freshly shot, and men standing
nearby were calmly carrying on
a conversation.
What kind of people and what
kind of ideas prevail in the
movie-making business I often
wondered.
I have a similar problem with
television. Actually I get along
well without television. I sleep
well, and don’t need it as a cure
for insomnia. Most of the things
shown and sold on TV are not of
great Interest to me.
But, once in a while, I’m
trapped, especially when my
hosts want me to see with them
these late night programs where
various personalities chat with
the glamour, or clamor boy, in
charge. My recollection is hazy,
but I think one of them is Jack
Spaarson. He alternately talks
with people and offers various
items for sale.
What spoils the program for
me is the foimat which seems in
variably to prevail in this type
of program. The m.c. introduces
his first guest with eclat and the
two of them launch a conversa
tion.
The talk is often banal, but I
can endure it. Frequently, the
guest is a comedian and he causes
gay laughter. Often the chatter
is forced and there seems to be
an artificial quest for humor, not
always successful. And again,
alas, the conversation slithers to
the edge of filth and once in a
while the two talkers smirkingly
plunge over the edge into the
mire, as the eyes of the m.c.
seem to turn in a mixture of de
fiance and anxiety towards the
inv ; sibie producer.
Then the time of the first guest
is up pnd here is what depresses
me. He is asked to move to
another cha’r and suddenly he
becomes peripheral.
A moment ago he was the cen
ter of attention. He was impor
tant. He sparkled. He made
Jokes. He was in the eye of the
audience—and the camera.
But now he is sidetracked. The
m.c. has quickly forgotten him.
The camera shows only his cuff
links or the end of his cigar.
The next guest has superseded
him and his wisdom and wit are
in the past.
Well, my trouble is that I am
still concentrating on guest Num
ber One. As I watch the program
I try to make him out. I try to
make out his feelings, too, as he
is nudged into obscurity. Occas
ionally he is heard from—a chor
tle, a muffled grunt, a dimly
heard comment. His voice seem
to emanate from some Sheol.
Why, I ask myself, is he al
lowed to sit there and be rel
egated so swiftly to second-rater
status? Why doesn’t he go home
after his moment in the light has
passed? Why does he remain
there and witness his own super
sedence? I’m always hoping that
one of theee will stage a come
back into the limelight, but it
never comes to pass.
The others In the living room
are now reacting to the second
guest. But I can’t focus on him.
I know how numbered are his
moments of glory. He’s the gay
one now, but In a few moments
he’ll be the gray one. And that
thought spoils the program for
me.
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