Word: cohn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Iceman Cometh, and for the next eight years he worked steadily, mostly as a heavy, in TV and films. At one point Columbia Pictures summoned him to Hollywood for a screen test but did not sign him. "For the same price," said Columbia's boss Harry Cohn, "I can get an actor with two eyes...
Nobody knows which two-eyed actor Cohn finally hired, but in the next two years one-eyed Falk won two Oscar nominations (for his portrayals of the vicious killer Abe Reles in Murder, Inc. and the Brooklyn hood in Pocketful of Miracles). His career then settled into a series of forgettable Hollywood films (The Great Race, Castle Keep, Luv) and a sprinkling of Italian epics. A TV series in 1965, The Trials of O'Brien (in which he played a slobbish lawyer similar to Columbo), folded after one season...
...petition began circulating in the three Radcliffe Houses last Tuesday in reaction to one proposal which was discussed by CHUL's Subcommittee on the Freshman Year last Monday, Stephen Cohn '75, chairman of the Currier House committee, said yesterday...
...Canadian Broadcasting Corp. put on a radio show in which nine audio specialists were asked to identify parts of a tape that had been doctored. They were unable to detect 90% of the edits-but reported finding numerous nonexistent changes. Producer Max Allen explained: "In a speech by Roy Cohn [Joe McCarthy's onetime protégé], they said they had looked at their oscilloscopes and swore they saw edits. But it was just Cohn's pattern of speech, which sounded naturally as if it had been edited...
Participation by Harvard students in the petition drive is vitally important, Diane Cohn, a second-year law student, said yesterday. "We need to impress upon O'Neill that his constituency is still concerned about the issues. The president did not divert the issues by releasing the tapes...