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inadvertently evolved into the prime cities, the only outlet for these relics
apparatus for exhibiting the very has been television, primarily through
product it originally wiped out. Only in the auspices of the late show.
specialized towns like Ann Arbor can Only you don't get much chance to
one find fairly regular theatrical see them even on TV anymore;
screenings from the '30s and '40s vaults television is just as obsessed as
of MGM, Warner, RKO, and the other Hollywood with the idea of newness, at
former Hollywood giants. In most least in chronology if not in theme. So

nowadays the inveterate media night-
owl is violated by an almost exclusive
diet of smarmy talk shows, even
smarmier made-for-TV movies, or,
worst of all, regurgitated reruns of
former prime-time series geared in the
first place to the lowest common
denominator of audience reasoning.

inside:

Grads reflect:
Where have you
gone, 1967?

Film: The
travesty of
late-night TV,

Books:
whirlw
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Supplement to The Michigan Daily

Ann Arbor, Michigan-Sunday, October 30, 1977