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[removed] Digest				Volume 96 : Issue 500

Table Of Contents: 

	 #Old Radio Chat
	 Radio Variety
	 Barry Gray, Mike Todd, Evita

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Date: Wed, 25 Dec 1996 23:21:41 -0800
From: lois@[removed] (Lois Culver)
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                        It's THURSDAY again!
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Come chat about old radio programs, stars, exchange tapes and entire
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Date: Wed, 25 Dec 1996 23:43:48 -0700
From: joseph <joseph@[removed]>
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Subject: Radio Variety
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OTR Folk

Here's one to ponder. Did radio have more variety than television? Or is it
just looking back at it from now makes it seem so.

I think radio had far more variety than tv. And I am not sure why.

Joseph M

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Date: Thu, 26 Dec 1996 20:25:06 -0500
From: Bigkids@[removed]
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Subject: Barry Gray, Mike Todd, Evita
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I loved Anthony Tollin's story of Barry Gray and Mike Todd, and the broadcast
"pan" that generated so much business for the show in question. (Anthony does
not tell us what show it was, however -- do you happen to know, Anthony?)

This reminds me of my own experience with reviews. Whenever I have a new
book, I eagerly await the reviews. (I know a lot of authors say they never
read their reviews; either they're putting us on or they're very different
from me in that regard.) 

When the reviews appear, while I am always happy to receive raves (naturally)
I enjoy the real frothing-at-the-mouth, I-hate-this-book,
I-HATE-IT-HATE-IT-HATE-IT ! ! ! responses almost as much. When you can get a
critic that riled up,  you've rally touched his buttons. When that happens, I
try to figure out what I did to provoke such a violent [removed] probably,
something right!

The reviews that I dislike are the lukewarm and/or merely descriptive ones.
("Here's a mystery about a murder in a radio station. The detective is
baffled at first but gathers clues and doggedly pursues the case [removed]"
and yadda-yadda-yadda, and so what, and who cares?) Those are almost as bad
as being totally ignored.

Favorite review I've come across lately (not regarding work of my own) was on
NPR, where a film critic was talking about"Evita." 

"This is the best filmed production ever of an opera, and the worst opera
ever filmed."

Actually, I suppose I'll have to see the film, despite my active disinterest
in Madonna. 

My father had to travel to Argentina in 1946 on business, and my mother went
along with him. They saw the Perons in a motorcade in Buenos Aires, and told
me about it when they returned. In later years, I got my mother to write out
a little memoir of the event, and of her other experiences on that trip, and
used it as background material for a novel a few years ago.

OTR RELEVANCE:

Did you know that Eva Duarte (later, Eva Peron) was a radio actress before
she got into the movies? According to several biographies, she appeared in
several series. One was a documentary called something like "Heroines of
History." In this she played Marie Antoinette, Queen Isabella, etc.

Another series was a science fiction serial. What wouldn't I give to have
some installments of this on cassette! My Spanish is pretty rudimentary, but
if I couldn't translate the shows myself I'd ask a friend who is fluent in
Spanish to do it for me. (In fact, we were at the same Christmas dinner last
night, and my friend had her three-year-old daughter with her. At last,
someone whom I could converse with *en espanol*. What a pleasure!

Although my Spanish is limited, I can sometimes tell different accents even
if I can't understand what's being said. I did see a few clips of Evita's
movies, and I could tell that she spoke like a tough, uneducated kid, a cross
between a gang-moll and a hillbilly. I disussed this recently on KPFA when my
guest was Tomas Eloy Martinez, author of "The Peron Novel" and "Santa Evita,"
and he said that indeed, Evita's speech pattern was exactly as I'd thought.

Enough for now. A happy new year to one and all, in case I don't post again
before 12/31/96.

Dick Lupoff



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