Jo Coppola was a prominent 1950s columnist and

television critic Television criticism is the act of writing or speaking about television programming to evaluate its worth, meaning, and other aspects. Such criticism can be found in daily newspapers, on culture discussion shows (on TV and radio), and in specialis ...

for '' Newsday'' and the ''

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''. She was the first TV critic ''Newsday'' ever had, and also wrote for '' Commonweal,''Hadjuk (2008) and others. In 1959 she wrote the script for the

short film A short film is any motion picture that is short enough in running time not to be considered a feature film. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences defines a short film as "an original motion picture that has a running time of 40 minutes ...

''Summer of Decision'', a 30 min long film produced by the

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, directed by William A. Graham and starring Suzanne Pleshette,

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and Nicholas Pryor.Not a TV Pilot – Summer of Decision (1959)
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*Jo Coppola, "Comedy on Television," Commonweal, 12 December 1958: 288 *John Hadjuk (2008

in The Montana Professor 18.2 Spring 2008 *Keeler, Robert F. (1990
''Newsday: a candid history of the respectable tabloid''
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Paul Krassner Paul Krassner (April 9, 1932 – July 21, 2019) was an American author, journalist, and comedian. He was the founder, editor, and a frequent contributor to the freethought magazine ''The Realist'', first published in 1958. Krassner became a key ...

(1958
''An angry Young Magazine''
in ''

The Realist ''The Realist'' was a Humor magazine, magazine of "social-political-religious criticism and satire", intended as a hybrid of a grown-ups version of Mad (magazine), ''Mad'' and Lyle Stuart's anti-censorship monthly ''The Independent.'' Edited and ...

'', Issue No. 1, June–July 1958
p.2
*Michael Williams (1958
''Commonweal, Volume 69''

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