Word: baddings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...compete with Steinway for the U.S. concert business. It will make Bösendorfers available across the country for performances by travel ing artists. Pianist Garrick Ohlsson has al ready gone over. But the odds are still with the Steinway: 95% of American concert pianists endorse it. Too bad Liszt is not around to judge the competition...
Weather. Much of it has ranged from bad to impossible. Denver's Stapleton airport was closed intermittently for days because of thunderstorms. The Northern states have been besieged by a succession of lightning-filled fronts, which have delayed flights for hours...
...looking for fun, but it took more time and work than I thought. The essence of producing is to get a good collaborative mix of talent. Yet, no matter what you do, a film is still a film?a couple of hours of moments, some good, some bad, and you have to replace the bad with the good." Only days before its opening, Beatty was in New York City refining the details of his movie's release. "Anyone who would make films and ignore the final phase?how it's projected on the screen, the speakers in the theater?...
...wanted to be a stage director?that was legitimate!" says Beatty, "and I wanted to write for the theater. I sort of backed into acting as a way of learning the theater." In New York in the late '50s, he worked at odd jobs, such as playing "bad cocktail piano" at a dim midtown club. After appearing in a few stock and live television productions, he got a screen test with Director Joshua Logan; another novice movie actor, Jane Fonda, auditioned with Beatty. Nothing came of it, but three months later MGM offered Beatty a five-year contract...
What he wanted most, he said, was to keep the U.S. Army from being sucked into politics. It's bad for Americans to think of military figures in a political way; and now here he was, a general and a political figure. He made a rather impassioned speech about the vital separation of military from civilian in American life. He'd made the mistake, on Jan. 7, of stating he would never run for the presidency unless there was a "clear-cut call to political duty" from the American people, and he shouldn't have used that...