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Moviegoers Like To Believe That Those They Have Made Stars Are Great Actors. People Used To Say That Gary Cooper Was A Fine Actor Probably Because When They Looked In His Face They Were Ready To Give Him Their Power Of Attorney.

Movies Are A Combination Of Art And Mass Medium, But Television Is So Single In Its Purpose-selling-that It Operates Without That Painful, Poignant Mixture Of Aspiration And Effort And Compromise.

Art Doesn't Come In Measured Quantities: It's Got To Be Too Much Or It's Not Enough.

Allowing For Exceptions, There Is Still One Basic Difference Between The Traditional Arts And The Mass-media Arts: In The Traditional Arts, The Artist Grows; In A Mass Medium, The Artist Decays Profitably.

A Steady Diet Of Mass Culture Is A Form Of Deprivation.