Word: cinema
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Martin & Lewis technique has paid off well. In addition to their fat NBC contract, Dean and Jerry make two movies a year: one for Paramount with a guarantee of 70% of the net profits and one for Producer Hal Wallis at a straight salary of $200,000 (see CINEMA). Last year their combined income topped...
Umberto D. A man walks the plank of old age. and the Italian realistic cinema dies with a gentle curse; Vittorio De Sica's most careful film (TIME...
Umberto D. The camera sips, more in sorrow than in anger, the dregs of old age; Vittorio De Sica writes a fine finis to the neorealist era in Italian cinema (TIME...
Married. Anatole Litvak, 53, Russian-born cinema director (The Snake Pit; Sorry, Wrong Number); and Sophie Bourdein, 32, French model; both for the second time (his first: Actress Miriam Hopkins); in Las Vegas...
...View from Partridge Sir: In your Nov. 14 Cinema review of The View from Pompey's Head I note the use of the word "peckerhead." I have my own definition of this word-will you kindly provide me with yours? PERRY W. PARKER Major, U.S.A.F. (ret.) Palmdale, Calif. ¶ According to Partridge's Dictionary oj Slang and TIME'S movie reviewer, peckerhead means a kind of beak-nosed eager beaver...