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DIED. MURRAY BURNETT, 86, unsung co-author of the play that became Casablanca; in New York City. Burnett sold Everybody Comes to Rick's to Warner Bros. for $20,000; though three screenwriters later won the Oscar for Casablanca, Burnett was ignored...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Oct. 13, 1997 | 10/13/1997 | See Source »

...financial stake in either Hilton or ITT, strenuously deny any tag-team effort. "I didn't even know Michael owned the stock," Dunlap protests. The Price camp calls any alleged teamwork "pure fiction." But if nothing else, as Humphrey Bogart told Claude Rains in the famous last line of Casablanca, "Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOING TO BAT AGAINST ITT | 8/25/1997 | See Source »

Take, for instance, Casablanca. A fine film, to be sure; but in today's world, could we really expect an internationally known freedom fighter like Victor Laszlo to leave a hotbed of international intrigue without the press's following his every move? No way. How much more credible would that movie be today if a veteran journalist--me, for instance--showed up for the finale on the tarmac. "Ted, I think--yes, that is Victor Laszlo approaching the airplane... He seems to be with two other people... There's a woman, a very attractive dark-haired woman, and... I believe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WHEN HOLLYWOOD CALLS | 7/28/1997 | See Source »

...Strom Thurmond dream of Fay Wray in his youth? Wray, 89, who made 80 films before 1960, popped up on Capitol Hill last week sans King Kong but with Julius Epstein, who wrote Casablanca, to talk about copyright law. She and fellow Hollywood old-timers want Congress to award writers of pre-1960 films royalties each time their work is rerun...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: May 5, 1997 | 5/5/1997 | See Source »

...think what makes the Square special, what people come here for, is the Brattle Theatre, the Tasty, Algiers, Casablanca--for the things that are different," says Gifford...

Author: By Adam S. Hickey, | Title: The Defense (Fund) Never Rests Its Case | 3/5/1997 | See Source »

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