Word: chandler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Alfred D. Chandler Jr. '40, Straus Professor of Business History, said yesterday at Winthrop House that antitrust law has had little effect on the degree of concentration in industry...
THURSDAY: Marlowe. 1970. One of a legion of films made from Raymond Chandler's private-eye novels, this one falls flat in the fast company. James Garner is just not a very credible Marlowe for those who have seen Bogart in "The Big Sleep." For good Marlowe, see Elliott Gould in "The Long Goodbye" at the Harvard Square this week. CH.7. 11:30 p.m. Color...
ROBERT ALTMAN turns detective movies upside down with The Long Goodbye. It's the latest in a series of films depicting the exploits of Raymond Chandler's fictional gumshoe, Philip Marlowe. Actors from Bogart to James Garner have played him, with Bogart creating the classic rendition. But audiences expecting something in the tradition of The Big Sleep are bound to be disappointed. Altman, the most original and risk-taking of current American directors, creates his own tradition...
...great many stage and film actors used to stimulate that faculty, among them Jeff Chandler, Van Heflin, Richard Widmark, Agnes Moorehead and E.G. Marshall. To many performers, ra dio drama remains more than a warm memory. Moorehead and Marshall, for example, are returning to CBS Radio Mystery Theater at far less than their customary salaries. "There is a place for the spoken word in our lives," Marshall insists. "Just think of how much fun it will be to turn off the lights at home, rest your eyes and get involved, using your mind instead of just sharing...
Other cultural institutions named for wealthy donors are the Elmer Holmes Bobst Library at New York University, the J. Paul Getty Museum of Art in Malibu, Calif., and the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion at the Los Angeles Music Center...