Word: ashley
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...flop percentage is the same for little movies as for blockbusters-about 70%. The Hollywood rule of thumb is that a picture must gross 2½ times its cost to break even. As Warner's President Ted Ashley puts it, "If you get hurt with the $15 million films, you get de-balled." Though his $20 million Hello, Dolly! may nose into the black eventually. Fox Board Chairman Darryl F. Zanuck confesses that he would be some kind of nut to launch such an extravagant film today. "Once you're over the $4,000,000 category," he figures...
...memory until the past becomes present and all of life is poured into one densely occupied moment. "Hooked with a wood into the forest, it will lead you well beyond the pier," states one clue. Does it refer to the golf course owned by Hind's friend Ashley Sill, where one may hook the ball into the trees? Or does it mean the huge fishhook stuck in the ironwood outside the Laurel home, from where Hershey was taken? Or does it refer to his friends Dewey Wood and de Forrest? Most of his acquaintances have the names of plants...
Friday, November 21 HALLMARK HALL OF FAME (NBC, 8:30-10 p.m.). Director George Schaefer returns to television after a year's absence to pre side over "The File on Devlin," which stars Dame Judith Anderson, Elizabeth Ashley and David McCallum...
Foam-Rubber Swords. Nonliterary objects offered for sale in the Whole Earth Catalog range from the practical to the whimsical, from power tools and tractors to "Boffers"-$11 foam-rubber swords that the catalogue calls "the first significant advance in weaponry since the encounter group." The Ashley Thermostatic Wood Burning Circulator is an $80 Franklin stove, equipped with a thermostat, that will go up to twelve hours without refueling. The Inquiry Box is a $19.96 gadget designed to teach theory building and theory testing: "By pulling and pushing the things that stick out and by poking around inside with...
PRUDENTIAL'S ON STAGE (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).* Workers on the committee of an antipoverty project include a war hero (William Shatner) and a poor girl (Elizabeth Ashley) who fall in love while dealing with politics and urban responsibility. The play's title: "... The Skirts of Happy Chance...