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...Hollywood Johansson has completed another acting chore in Columbia's All the Young Men. He plays a Swede who joins the U.S. Marines to get his citizenship and is shipped to Korea. So excited is Columbia Bigwig Sam Briskin that he hopes to cast Ingo in a western...
...usual, Hollywood fired back in all directions. Sounding as if any criticism amounted to outright censorship, Columbia Vice President Sam Briskin pulled the trigger before he even saw the enemy. No individual or group, he cried, has a right to censor the industry. "The public will soon enough tell us what they want and don't want...
...measurement) may not only be taller than Sammy, but he dresses more stylishly and talks in round, mellifluous tones. The observation is also chronologically inaccurate. David was running fast before he joined the Ivy League-fast enough to have married pretty, wealthy Phyllis Briskin while both were students at the University of Wisconsin, fast enough to be set up in a comfortable Cambridge apartment when he transferred to Harvard. After graduating cum laude (history and government) in 1942, Susskind served a tour in the Navy before he began running in earnest. Work as a movie pressagent, then as an actors...
...board of directors by increasing its membership from 13 to 19. Then they voted in nine management nominees to fill ten empty seats (including four recent resignations). The tenth seat fell to the management's critics, who put all their cumulative votes behind Veteran Movie Executive Sam Briskin, 60, onetime production chief for Columbia and RKO. Final count: 13 directors for Vogel, six for his critics...
...they do not appear to want to lead a proxy fight themselves, nor do they support Tomlinson's bid to power. Actually, the bankers aimed only to joggle Loew's management by placing more real movie pros on the board; in this case their choice was Briskin...