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...paralysis after three years of proxy battles and within four weeks was to report the $35 million loss for 1969. Part of that deficit, though, was accounted for by the cancellation of 15 films in progress that Aubrey decided were poor box-office risks. He killed an adaptation of André Malraux's Man's Fate after $3,000,000 and three years out of the life of Director Fred Zinnemann had been invested in it. Under Aubrey's "streamlining" program, MGM's 183-acre Hollywood studio is now considered just real estate. Five...
...thing. The musical interpretation of the life and times of Paris Couturière Gabrielle ("Coco") Chanel will be Hepburn's first Broadway performance since she played the title role in The Millionairess in 1952. Hepburn is not alone. Alan Jay Lerner did the book and lyrics, André Previn is making his Broadway debut with the music, Cecil Beaton is designing the costumes and sets, and Frederick Brisson (Damn Yankees, The Pajama Game, AIfie) is producing...
...André Previn was enlisted, even though he and Lerner never seemed to be able to get together. "It seems to me that we wrote Coco by screaming at each other as we passed in airports," Previn says. When they finally buckled down to it, they worked out an ego-saving shorthand to communicate lack of enthusiasm for each other's work. "If we didn't like something," Previn explains, "we'd say, 'It fits.' That's very polite, and it has the same result as if one of us said, That...
...patch of green moldlike substance was discovered in a section called the Hall of Bulls (named for the lO-ft.-high creatures on its walls). The patch spread rapidly, and similar growths began to crop up elsewhere. This mysterious maladie verte so distressed French Cultural Affairs Minister André Malraux, an amateur archaeologist himself, that he appointed a commission of archaeologists, speleologists and other savants to save France's "prehistoric Sistine Chapel...
...more widely held view was expressed by an Ajaccio lycée history teacher, André Fazi: "All things considered, Napoleon's balance sheet seems positive. I'll admit, though, that Bonaparte the revolutionary Consul was more admirable than Napoleon the Emperor. As somebody said, they should have killed Napoleon at the foot of a statue of Bonaparte...