Screen Gems/television Subsidiary - 1948-1974

Famous quotes containing the words screen, gems and/or television:

    Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.
    Raoul Walsh, U.S. screen writer. Frisco Doll (Mae West)

    Too often when you thought you’d be showered with confetti
    What they flung at you was a plate of hot spaghetti
    You’ve put your fancy clothes and flashy gems in hock
    Yet you pause before your father’s door afraid to knock
    John Ashbery (b. 1927)

    History is not what you thought. It is what you can remember. All other history defeats itself.
    In Beverly Hills ... they don’t throw their garbage away. They make it into television shows.
    Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will.
    Mikhail Bakunin (1814–1876)