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P:Twentieth Century-Fox Boss Darryl nuck announced that he will reissue Wilson (1944), in which the hero is flattened into a onedimensional, internationalist Woodrow Wilson and the villains are cardboard Republicans, especially Henry Cabot Lodge, the elder. Said Zanuck, who always liked the picture: "It was an artistic and sociological success ... but it came out at the wrong time."

P:Sheree North, a modern-day cootch dancer who made a big hit in Broadway's Hazel Flagg (TIME, Feb. 23, 1953), and who has been described as having a "ball-and-socket pelvis," learned from a federal court m Los Angeles that two of her early films (now popular in the stag-party circuit) were not, as the Post Office suggested, "obscene, lewd and lascivious." Said Judge Ernest A. Tolin: "To say the films (How to Be an Exotic Dancer, The Waste-Basket Blues) have no reference to sex would be naive in the ultimate . The movements ... are not particularly different from those of the popular dances of the day. The costumes . . . while something considerably less than the usual street dress, are not materially less than usual, modern beach wear."

P:The National Legion of Decency published its annual report on the moral state H U.S. films. Only two American pictures --Violated and The French Line--were condemned by the Legion in 1954, said the report.

P:Independent movie-theater owners who seldom permit their eyes to wander from the cash register to the screen, were polled by the Independent Film Journal on their favorite movie and stars of the 1953-54 season. Top-money movie: From Here to Eternity (Columbia). No. 1 actor: John Wayne. No. 1 actress: Marilyn Monroe.

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