Word: buffs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...local theatre buff remarked after the final showing of No Sun in Venice last night, "This is the kind of film a Harvard freshman might have directed." It contains a liberal sprinkling of sex, a rooftop chase, a little violence, good guys, bad guys, suave continental types, a dash of philosophy and more than the usual sprinkling of psychological insights: in short, it's just the kind of movie a Harvard freshman--or senior, or graduate student--might have directed...
...Civil War novel, The Horse Soldiers, snapped it up for a token $1 (eventually they paid $30,000 for the book). Looking around for a director, Entrepreneur Rackin went to the best. "For the hell of it, I called John Ford." Before long, Director Ford, a Civil War buff, agreed to do the picture for a $200,000 flat fee plus 10% of the gross after the movie has earned back its production costs...
Scott sent Managing Editor Himie Koshevoy to Washington to do a three-part series on John Foster Dulles that turned out more balanced than the Sun's bitterly anti-Dulles editorials. Down to Uruguay bustled Newshen Simma Holt to find Stefan Sorokin, leader of the buff-stripping, dynamiting Sons of Freedom sect of the Doukhobors, filed stories of the wealth Sorokin had gleaned from his followers in British Columbia...
Pitchfork & Ax. A well-read frontier buff, Gruber admits that "in television scripts we distort things. Like in Wells Fargo we have Dale Robertson inventing the swivel holster when it was really invented by John Wesley Hardin. Or we have Belle Starr as a beautiful woman, when she really was a terrible looking...
Though the Crimson line held the Columbia offense well, the Lions themselves often seemed to make the defensive job easier. Coach Buff Donelli introduced a few surprise formations in the game--the split-T with a man in motion and a variation of the single wing which he calls the X formation--but they seemed to confuse his own men more than the Crimson. Several big losses and a few of the fumbles were due to missed backfield connections on these plays, flashy as they semed when they worked, and Donelli probably wishes he had given his team more practice...