Offensive opening gambit
By
KEN COATES
No viewer would quibble with the winning by a television actor, producer, scriptwriter, or frontman of an award for a well-earned performance. But the television industry does its “image” no good by the kind of sense-
less gimmickry that preceded Monday night’s nat‘ ional telecasting of the Feltex awards from Auckland. Two young men on motor-cycles (riding without helmets) gunned their bikes down a beach on which they would normally be prohibited from riding. Two filmy maidens in a beach buggy were filmed weaving in and out of the water, with their eyes on the guys. And, surprise, surprise, the guys met the gals, and ran off up the beach to meet a rowing boat full of “sailors.” From the boat, stepped Ilona Rodgers (an Englishborn actress of undoubted professional ability) and Peter Sinclair, frontman. Are viewers to be treated as children, or was this sequence merely the whim of some producer who wanted to do “something different” to introduce this year’s award proceedings? It seemed silly and unnecessary — almost embarrassing.
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Press, 8 March 1978, Page 15
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