TV Radio Mirror (Jan - Jun 1963)

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because there's always the threat ol the law. . . . The law won't always be breathing down my neck," said Dave (who, as Diamond, breathed down a few necks of his own ) . "That would be a little corny and tough to take on a week-to-week basis. "But I do have to travel around a lot to keep free of suspicion. ''Dramatically, this is a good premise for a series, because I get involved in all kinds of situations. In this story we're shooting now. I'm what's called a 'cut man' in the corner of a fighter. I know he has something seriously wrong with him because I'm a physician who can't practice medicine. (There's the "Ben Casey" — "Dr. Kildare" slant!) "We'll be shooting all over the United States, too. We'll be going to San Francisco next week. "We're going to try to shoot a storm at sea, too — the real thing." Sounds more dangerous than playing bang-bang with blank bullets (or even the kind of cutthroat tennis Dave plays with Eric Fleming, the big boss of "RawThide" — at right) ! Cowboy Gulch: In the old days. Gower Street in Hollywood was known as "Cowboy Gulch" because Dave and Eric play hard-to-beat. Westerns of all kinds were being made on the movie lots there — the lots are directly behind the Hollywood Cemetery ("where the bad guys go to die") — but television has also invaded the area . . . and now you can't tell the movie Westerns from the TV Westerns. Lome Greene and his "Bonanza" cohorts came loping into the Paramount cafeteria for lunch one day (all the secretaries heaved a sigh ! ) and sat down next to the extras on an Audie Murphy movie which was shooting just across the street. About half an hour later, a TV man came in and started to round up his "Bonanza" people. The sweep of his hand indicated all in the area should rouse themselves up. "Not me," said one Audie Murphy man. "I'm movies." One of Rosemary Clooney's reasons for some TV cancellations recently was — sad to say — bleeding ulcers. While visiting in Japan. I was amazed at the excellent quality of TV and also at the names of the big hits on Japanese TV in Tokyo: "Ben Casey" and Donna Reed — with appropriate Japanese subtitles, of course! Applaud— Or Else: The NBC people were proudly showing off their new Peacock Studio on the ninth floor of the RCA Building. This was the studio made famous in the old days by Toscanini and Dinah Shore, but now it was being converted to (Please turn the page) The Greenes go formal with cellist Gregor Piatigorsky. It's not like on "Bonanza" — or our story on page 48!