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This week: Shoot-out at Rio Lobo
There are a number of ways to report for television. George Plimpton is an American television reporter who goes about it in a somewhat unusual manner. He doesn't observe - he joins. Tonight Man Alive hands over to a George Plimpton report: in which, as a reporter, he becomes part of the industry he intends to observe - this time a Hollywood western.
(The reporter who tried to shoot John Wayne: page 3)