Word: arthur
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DIED. Steve Gordon, 44, cinematic overnight sensation whose second screenplay and directorial debut, the fluffy screwball comedy Arthur, grossed more than $ 130 million at the box office and guffaws of critical approval; of a heart attack; in New York City. A writer of TV commercials and sitcoms, he could not quite believe his Arthurian success, saying last year, "I haven't even started my next screenplay, and already it doesn't work. I just think I fooled them once...
...Bostonians fighting to give a defunct electric advertisement the same landmark protection as hallowed Boston Common? Arthur Krim, a consultant to the Massachusetts Historical Society, puts the issue simply:"This sign is also part of the heritage that makes Boston a very interesting place...
Many other Volunteers of America Santas on the streets of New York are former or current residents of the organization's settlement house for destitute men. Arthur Johnson is one such resident. "The Volunteers are helping me out so I help them out," he says. Another member of the house, who would only identify himself as Fred, said he was dressing up as Santa to pick up some extra money before his next unemployment check. One special pleasure of the job. Fred said, is competing for donations with the non-Santa-dressed Salvation Army...
...journey to this poignant, uneven movie, through a succession of worse and better ones, began in Cleveland Heights, a comfortable suburb of Cleveland, where Paul was born in 1925. He was the second son of Arthur S. Newman, a prosperous Jewish partner in a sporting-goods store, and Theresa Fetzer, a Hungarian-descended Catholic. By the time Paul and his brother Arthur, now 58, a film production manager living in Lake Arrowhead, Calif., were children, Theresa was a Christian Scientist. Paul's exposure to that faith did not make any lasting impression (he has followed no religion...
There was a family echo here. Arthur Newman, "a brilliant, erudite man" with "a marvelous, whimsical sense of humor," at 17 had been the youngest reporter ever hired by the Cleveland Press, Paul says, but he had quit to go into the family business. Newman is uncharacteristically subdued in recalling his father: "I think he always thought of me as pretty much of a lightweight. He treated me like he was disappointed in me a lot of the time, and he had every right to be. It has been one of the great agonies of my life that he could...