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  Interview with Hal Kanter Director of Loving You
Interview with Hal Kanter, screenwriter and director for the Elvis Presley movie Loving You.
Over the years, Hal Kanter received six Emmy Award nominations, winning the last two for his writing on the annual Academy Awards telecast.
A : I was asked by a producer named Hal Wallis to come and see a screen test that he had made of a young man named Elvis Presley.
www.elvis.com.au /presley/interview_hal_kanter.shtml   (3495 words)

  
  Henry Winkler to Host Scripter Awards
Flourishing in TV’s Golden Age, Kanter was the head of the Emmy-winning writing team of “The George Gobel Show.” He also wrote scripts and special material for such comedy legends as Bob Hope, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis.
Kanter was the creative force behind the 1968 series “Julia,” a groundbreaking program starring Diahann Carroll.
In 2004, Kanter was honored by the Writers Guild of America, West, with the Morgan Cox Award, which is presented to the member whose vital ideas, continuing efforts and personal sacrifices best exemplify service to the WGA.
www.usc.edu /uscnews/stories/10839.html   (443 words)

  
 USC Scripter® Award: Press: Releases: December 9, 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Hal Kanter, who has lent his humor to all 16 prior Scripter ceremonies, returns for the fifth time as grand emcee.
Kanter was the creative force behind the popular 1968 sitcom Julia, a sociologically important effort in that it was the first weekly TV program to star a young fl woman, Diahann Carroll, in a non-subservient role.
In 2004, Kanter was honored by the Writers Guild of America, west, with the Morgan Cox Award, which is presented to the member whose vital ideas, continuing efforts and personal sacrifices best exemplify service to the Guild.
www.usc.edu /isd/partners/scripter/press/releases/pr_17_emcee.html   (800 words)

  
 Hal Kanter: ZoomInfo Business People Information
Hal Kanter's summary was automatically generated using 159 references found on the Internet.
Perhaps one of Kanter's most indelible contributions to the Guild has taken place outside the boardroom: contributing a wealth of material for many annual Writers Guild Awards shows, adding his signature comic sensibility as writer, host, presenter, and featured entertainer over the years.
Returning to television in the mid-'60s, Kanter was the creative force behind the groundbreaking 1968 sitcom Julia, the first network series starring an African-American woman (Diahann Carroll) in a lead role, earning him a 1969 co-writing Emmy nomination for Outstanding Comedy Series.
www.zoominfo.com /people/kanter_hal_3027088.aspx   (748 words)

  
 So Far, So Funny: My Life in Show Business
Author Hal Kanter's experience spans radio, TV and movies during the Golden Age of each medium.
Kanter's dry wit never turns brittle as he guides the reader anecdotally through his career as comedy writer, director and producer.
Kanter sums up his own life (and his book) in his comment about his friend and colleague George Gobel: "He spent 60 years, man and boy, exercising his gift to amuse- or at the least, to keep us from getting sullen".
www.centrasoft.net /b21/0786404833.htm   (489 words)

  
 Loving You - Paramount 1957 - Elvis Presley
Director Hal Kanter spent some time on the road with Elvis and his band for research prior to the film's production.
Hal Wallis assigned Hal Kanter as the screenwriter and director for the movie.
Corey, son of a minister, was born in Massachusetts in 1914.
www.elvispresley.com.au /elvis/presley/loving_you.shtml   (2339 words)

  
 Oscar gags are serious business
Hal Kanter, Alan ''Buz'' Kohan and Rita Cash are working on their sixth Oscar show together.
Kanter is doing his 33rd show, Kohan his 18th and Cash her sixth.
The trio is putting the finishing touches on copy for 24 categories (45 seconds each), two honorary segments (two minutes each) and descriptions of the five best-picture nominees (30 seconds each).
www.chicagosuntimes.com /output/movies/cst-nws-jokes27.html   (483 words)

  
 USC Scripter® Award: Press: Releases: June 23, 2005   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Hal Kanter, who has lent his humor to all 17 prior Scripter ceremonies, returns for the sixth time as grand emcee.
Kanter was the head of the Emmy-winning writing team of The George Gobel Show.
Kanter continues to be a prolific on-camera interviewee in retrospective documentaries devoted to film and TV comedy, and he also has scripted more than 30 Academy Award® shows.
www.usc.edu /isd/partners/scripter/press/releases/pr_18_emcee.html   (751 words)

  
 NameTraq | Last Name: Kanter
However, Town Chairman Paul Kanter declared there was no consensus on the commission for a zoning change after an extensive debate, with Heinith and...
But Plotkin and Chancellor Martha Kanter noted that even though past efforts have failed, there is renewed interest in the house, and the attending publicity...
It was directed by Hal Kanter and Presley's mother, Gladys, appeared as an extra in the audience.
www.nametraq.com /genealogy_jan04/K/Kanter.shtml   (699 words)

  
 AMC Interview With Hollywood Insiders
Noted screen and television writer-director, memoirist, and raconteur Hal Kanter was also working for Wallis when he both wrote and directed Loving You (1957) and later wrote Blue Hawaii; his other screen credits include About Mrs.
KANTER: No, I knew very little beyond the way he was portrayed in the popular literature of the time.
KANTER: After I'd finished the Blue Hawaii script, Wallis wanted some changes, but by that time I was committed to another project, so I couldn't do them.
www.kki.pl /elvisal/interview_with_hollywoodinsiders.htm   (3772 words)

  
 Julia
Series creator, Hal Kanter, a Hollywood liberal and broadcasting veteran whose credits included writing for the Beulah radio show in the 1940s, initiated Julia's challenge to what remained of television's colour bar.
Kanter had attended a luncheon organized by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and been inspired enough to propose the project to NBC.
However, Hal Kanter emphasized that the show did attempt to emphasize the more "humorous aspects" of prejudice and discrimination, while focusing on how the fl characters attempted "to enjoy the American dream." Humorous situations dealing with race tended to work to defuse anxieties about racial difference.
www.museum.tv /archives/etv/J/htmlJ/julia/julia.htm   (843 words)

  
 Slide Area: Film Book Notes 4/99
Hal Kanter is such a legendary writer of radio, television, and screen comedy that it is something of a surprise to find that his autobiography, "So Far, So Funny: My Life In Show Business" is published by McFarland (at $35.00) rather than by a major trade publisher.
The career of Hal Kanter is a fascinating one, and it is recounted here with truth and with humor, as he recalls names such as Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Milton Berle, Danny Kaye, Frank Capra, Elvis Presley, and the creators of Amos 'n' Andy, Freeman Gosden, and Charles Correll.
Kanter has a wonderful way with words, and as a writer, of course, he should.
www.classicimages.com /1999/april99/bookreviews499.html   (2594 words)

  
 McFarland - Publisher of Reference and Scholarly Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
At 18, Hal Kanter first came to Hollywood to work as the ghost writer for a comic strip for the princely sum of $10 per week—before he was fired.
Kanter’s writing career went from radio shows to screenplays to television series.
Hal Kanter continues to write, produce and direct in Encino, California.
www.mcfarlandpub.com /book-2.php?isbn=0-7864-0483-3   (241 words)

  
 A Talented Trio
Sharon Gless, Hal Kanter and Robert Towne sign on for the USC Scripter Award ceremony, honoring the year's best film adaptation of a book or novella.
Actress Sharon Gless and writers Hal Kanter and Robert Towne will take part in the USC Scripter® Award ceremony to be held Feb. 15 at USC.
Gless, Kanter and Towne, respectively, will serve as master of ceremonies, grand master of ceremonies and chair of the event honoring the year’s best film adaptation of a book or novella.
www.usc.edu /uscnews/stories/9618.html   (477 words)

  
 Television Heaven
But in 1968 producer Hal Kanter pitched an idea to NBC and Twentieth Century Fox about a young fl widow trying to hold down a job whilst bringing up her young son.
However, Carroll managed to convince Hal Kanter that she was worth a try-out and got hold of a copy of the script for the pilot episode.
The meeting apparently ended with Kanter saying to her, "Well, Julia, it's nice to have met you." The pilot was shot and NBC ordered an initial thirteen episodes.
www.televisionheaven.co.uk /julia.htm   (725 words)

  
 Biography for Hal Kanter   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Hal Kanter started out writing variety shows and revues for television in the early 1950s.
Hal Kanter is the son of Albert L. Kanter, who founded the successful "Classic Comics" (later "Classics Illustrated") series in 1941.
Through Hal Kanter's Hollywood connections, "Classics Illustrated" obtained comic-book rights to The Ten Commandments (1956) and The Buccaneer (1958).
www.us.imdb.com /name/nm0437900/bio   (192 words)

  
 New York Daily News - TV and Radio - Restoring the King, decades later   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Kanter recalls taking considerable heat for his involvement in the film, about a third of which is made up of Presley's hipswiveling performances of such hits as "Got a Lot of Living to Do" and "Teddy Bear."
But Kanter says the reaction only justified his decision to have the movie address freedom of expression.
Kanter says Presley never watched "Loving You" after his mother died, because the director had put her in the film.
www.nydailynews.com /entertainment/ent_radio/story/8675p-8127c.html   (1047 words)

  
 hal kanter - morgan cox
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LOS ANGELES -- The Writers Guild of America, west has named legendary comedy writer/director Hal Kanter as this year's recipient of the Morgan Cox Award to be presented at the Guild's second-annual Honorary Service Award Luncheon on Tuesday, November 16, 2004, at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills.
Kanter also directed pop icon Elvis Presley in his hit movie Loving You (1957), as well as Rowan and Martin western spoof Once Upon A Horse (1957).
www.wga.org /subpage_newsevents.aspx?id=458   (779 words)

  
 Kanter Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
Designed to bring today's managers and professionals the fundamental information needed to stay competitive in a fast-moving world, this review includes landmark ideas from leading minds that have established the "Harvard Business Review" as required reading for ambitious business people in organizations around the globe.
Kanter shows how the truly innovative companies are leading the way, and how "giants" are actually joining this "post-entrepreneurial revolution".
This book brings together all of Rosabeth Moss Kanter's Harvard Business Review articles and many of the editorial columns that she wrote when she was editor of HBR.
www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Kanter   (990 words)

  
 Books in Review - April 1999
Hal Kanter's autobiography makes no promises, but prompts several good chuckles on almost every page, as well as some authentic, out-loud laughs.
The material sometimes takes the reader into grim territory — deaths, illnesses, and World War II — but the writing is sufficiently adroit to sidestep the "but seriously, ladies and gentlemen" curse.
Kanter is well-known to many cinematographers, not only for his work as a top-notch comedy writer, producer and director, but for his perennial turns as emcee of the annual ASC Gala, held at the Bel Air Country Club in years past.
www.theasc.com /magazine/apr99/books/index.htm   (883 words)

  
 Hal Kanter Memorial Site
Gainesville – Harold (”Hal”) Kanter died December 31, 2006 at Haven Hospice E.T. York Care Center.  He was 88.
Hal was devoted to the Jewish community and lived a life filled with deeds of loving kindness.  He was a member of the synagogue’s ritual committee, daily minyan group, and participated in every life cycle event.
Family photo in Fayettville, NY Hal is 17 (1935)
www.halkanter.com   (173 words)

  
 Hal Kanter   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
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 Awards Ceremonies 1960-1969 - Academy Awards - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Script - Richard Breen, Hal Kanter, Jack Rose, Mel Shavelson
Script - George Axelrod, Richard Breen, Hal Kanter, Stanley Roberts
Script - Richard Breen, Hal Kanter, Milt Rosen
www.oscars.org /aboutacademyawards/ceremonies/ceremonies04.html   (247 words)

  
 Hangin’ with Oscar’s writers - More Oscar news - MSNBC.com
The three-person Academy Awards writing team of Kohan, Hal Kanter and Rita Cash are responsible for putting words in the mouths of the several dozen stars appearing on the three-hour-plus Oscarcast -- everyone, that is, except the winners themselves and host Chris Rock.
On Sunday night, these joke writers hope the flesh-and-blood versions will get laughs with the words they’ve written.
Once Oscar producer Gil Cates and talent wrangler Danette Herman assigned presenters to the categories, the writers divvied up the awards, based on who best knew the subject matter or who personally knew a presenter.
msnbc.msn.com /id/7032166   (812 words)

  
 Amazon.com: So Far, So Funny: My Life In Show Business: Books: Hal Kanter   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
"Kanter recalls his life and career as a writer in his must-read book"
Hal Kanter's book is filled with witty ironies, laugh-out-loud descriptions, deft one-liners, some well-placed locker room epithets and an inveterate sense of sheer humor"
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www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0786404833?v=glance   (956 words)

  
 Hangin' with Oscar's writers 02/26/05
LOS ANGELES - Surrounded by stand-ins accepting plaster Oscar statuettes at the Kodak Theatre, the Academy Awards writing team surveyed cardboard versions of Al Pacino, Charlize Theron, Renee Zellweger and other stars.
Oscar writers Rita Cash, Hal Kanter, center, and Alan "Buzz" Kohan watch rehearsals for the 77th Academy Awards inside the Kodak Theatere, Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2005, in Los Angeles.
The three-person Academy Awards writing team are responsible for putting words in the mouths of the several dozen stars appearing on the three-hour-plus Oscarcast -- everyone, that is, except the winners themselves and host Chris Rock.
chronicle.augusta.com /stories/022605/osc_E0603.shtml   (880 words)

  
 The Rose Tattoo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The film adaptation stars Anna Magnani, Burt Lancaster, Marisa Pavan and Jo Van Fleet.
The movie was adapted by Williams and Hal Kanter and directed by Daniel Mann.
Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White - Hal Pereira, Tambi Larsen, Sam Comer, Arthur Krams
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Rose_Tattoo   (237 words)

  
 Hal Kanter Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
At 18, Hal Kanter first came to Hollywood to work as the ghost writer for a comic strip for the princely sum of $10 per week -- before he was fired.
by Kenneth L. Stilson, Hal Kanter (Foreword by)
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www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Hal_Kanter   (144 words)

  
 Hal Kanter - DvdToile   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Voici les films auxquels Hal Kanter a participé.
Hal Walker - Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour
La fiche de Hal Kanter sur Les Gens du Cinéma
www.dvdtoile.com /Filmographie.php?id=41139   (171 words)

  
 TIME.com: Wonderful World of Color -- Dec. 13, 1968 -- Page 1
"Literate, funny, warm and tender" was Producer Hal Kanter's unblushing preseason review of his new NBC show Julia, the first TV series to focus on a Negro family.
In one episode, when a character conveniently named Potts makes a slighting reference about Negroes, Julia delivers her big punch line: "Is Potts calling the fl a kettle?" Producer Kanter promises more of this hard-hitting social commentary in forthcoming shows.
"In one program," says Kanter, "there's a Negro male who's a failure and blames it all on his being colored.
www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,839673,00.html   (515 words)

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