Word: antonios
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...Antonio is an enormous, powerfully-built man with a Rabelaisian taste for life and its varied pleasures. Few of the scores of things he has done have been able to hold his attention for more than a couple of years. No doubt he will stick to making films for what will probably seem to him an inordinately long time. But he would never allow something like the favorable public response to his movie to seduce him into an easy routine. He is through, for example, with documentary movies. The film he is now writing will be utterly different from Point...
...Antonio came to movies in a roundabout way. He enrolled at Harvard with the Class of 1940. He was a serious student with Group II grades, but he also had a great deal of fun. He was finally fired after a binge climaxed by the attempted arson of Claverly Hall. It was 1938, and de Antonio went to work on the docks to wait for America to enter the War. By 1945 he had flown thirty-eight bombing missions over Japan as the pilot of a Flying Fortress...
...time or another, Emile de Antonio has been everything from a longshoreman to a teacher of philosophy. Now, with the startling commercial success of his latest and only movie, Point of Order, he has abruptly become a widely-known film director as well...
Piloting that B-29 was the nearest de Antonio has come to holding, or even wanting to hold, a steady job. He has clung to his independence, which means that no one--not wives (he has had four), not employers (he has had dozens)--has been able to cling to him. After the War he got his master's degree in philosophy at Columbia while working as a barge captain. It was an ideal job for a graduate student: all he had to do was untie the barge in the morning and tie it up again at night. The rest...
Since then he has taught philosophy, edited books free-lance, and been a reasonably successful artists' agent. A typical de Antonio venture was his fictitious corporation, "Conservative Enterprises, Inc.," which he founded one day about five years ago. It was, of course, a satire on business: the company's board of directors was a list of impressive-sounding, Anglo-Saxon, and completely imaginary names. But by selling a Texas oil millionaire a warehouseful of nylon ropes that no one wanted because they had communications wires inside them, de Antonio made enough money out of Conservative Enterprises to take a rather...