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...White's thesis that we had better have all the panoply of arms, atomic and otherwise, rather than no arms at all is intriguing. Certainly if we were to awaken one morning to an unarmed world we'd probably have that walking-down-Hollywood-Boulevard-in-the-altogether feeling. However, Mr. White is, I think, oversimplifying. The very fact that we are in the atomic age defeats his argument. As more and more nations acquire the know-how and or the weapons themselves, the logarithm of danger will increase. We cannot be sure even today that "some...
...turned to hunting down their former officers-particularly those who were Flemings (i.e., Belgians whose language is related to Dutch), who have always been unpopular with the Congolese for their fancied relation to the South African Boers, whose language is derived from Dutch. Invading the main hotels along the Boulevard Albert, the soldiers drove out U.S. and British newsmen at bayonet point and confined U.N. Representative Ralph Bunche to his room...
Having made 23 Hollywood pictures, most of them commercial successes, Wilder has been nominated 18 times for Academy Awards and won three, for Lost Weekend (director and coauthor) and Sunset Boulevard (co-author). Says he with a snarl: "I was robbed 15 times." But he adds: "I am batting twice as good as Ted Williams ever...
...Brackett and rough Billy Wilder clicked right away. Wilder spewed Niagaras of notions, and in this prodigious stream of consciousness, Brackett fished for usable ideas. Together they wrote 14 films without a single flop, and some of their movies were among the biggest hits (Ninotchka, The Lost Weekend, Sunset Boulevard) of the era. But in 1950 Brackett and Wilder broke up. Says Wilder: "Sometimes a match and the striking surface both wear out, and that's what happened to us." Says Brackett: "Billy had outgrown his divided fame...
...carry off situations that seem outrageous. Few moviemakers nowadays would dare stake a whole picture, as he did in Some Like It Hot, on the comedy to be derived from two muscular men dressing up as girls. Few producers would have permitted themselves, as Billy did in Sunset Boulevard, to start a movie with a corpse floating in a swimming pool and then have the corpse himself tell the story. He seems almost to be playing a game with himself to see how close he can come to the edge of questionable taste or implausibility without ever falling over...