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Perhaps the most celebrated casting director is Selznick, who has been matching actors with parts for almost 40 years. She can still remember young Bernie Schwartz crossing West 57th Street in Manhattan 34 years ago. She followed him into an office building, and soon he was on the phone with his mother in The Bronx. "This crazy lady here says she's going to make me into a movie star," said Bernie, who was, in fact, already thinking along those lines. "Bring her home for dinner," said Mamma, and Selznick made her pitch. It took three years, but eventually...
Whenever the 13 members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries get together, two things seem certain: they will bicker vociferously among themselves, and then they will raise the price of their precious crude. That is precisely what happened at the OPEC oil ministers' 57th meeting last week at the El Aurassi hotel in Algiers. After lavish feasting on caviar and couscous, the oil ministers argued until 3 a.m. but then reached a compromise that allowed some of them to push the price of oil still higher. The 13 countries decided to set a price ceiling...
Manhattan was alive with eye-stopping incongruities: a man in a blue pinstripe suit and ten-gallon hat roller skating on the Avenue of the Americas; a distinguished, elderly man tooling along 57th Street in a motorized chair, his briefcase tucked under the seat; a woman decked out in designer dress and gold jewelry plodding down Fifth Avenue in sneakers. Mayor Edward Koch paid rush-hour visits to the Brooklyn Bridge, whooping like a cheerleader and shouting encouragement to the passing throngs...
...Donald Petersen, 53, who replaced Caldwell as president. The third was for the automaker's acquittal that same day in Winamac, Ind., on unprecedented criminal charges of reckless homicide in the deaths of three teen-age girls in a fiery Pinto crash in 1978. They were the 57th, 58th and 59th people to die in accidents involving the subcompact, which Ford began making...
...self-imposed deadlines for making a decision came and went. Lists of pros and cons littered Rather's Manhattan apartment. Before leaving for work last Wednesday he promised his wife Jean that he would make up his mind that day. At 60 Minutes' offices on West 57th Street, Rather consulted with Mike Wallace, Morley Safer and other CBS colleagues, then he met with NBC News President William Small. Late that night Jean Rather finally turned to him in their living room. "You were going to make a decision today," she said evenly. "You have 17 minutes left." At long last...