Article: Quiz Show. (motion picture)

With Robert Redford's Quiz Show, one of the most popular and ill-fated genres in television history has returned from kinescope oblivion for a second media life. Apparently, back when Eisenhower was in the White House and Elvis in the Army, the quiz show scandal rivaled Sputnik and fluoridated water as a threat to Cold War America. Drawing on a chapter in Richard N. Goodwin's Remembering America, director Redford and screenwriter Paul Attanasio depict this blip on the cultural radar as a low-definition metaphor for the loss of postwar innocence, the first slip in a long slide into credibility gaps and modified, limited hang-outs. First Geritol and NBC betray the nation on ...

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