Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...DOWN AT Watson Rink the week before Thanksgiving Paramount Pictures began the shooting of Love Story, to star Ali McGraw of Goodbye Columbus -again as a Cliffie. I had met Marty Richards, casting manager and so forth, at a press reception on Tuesday and smiled at him sweetly, so here I was on Thursday morning at eight o'clock, reporting as directed...
...Hiller has sworn not to use any too-artsy techniques, like the slow motion in Goodbye Columbus as Ali bounds toward the river for a swim one balmy evening. Altogether, Hiller impressed me as the most intelligent person around. He strolled up and down the ice in his huge grey-green parka, looking out from the fur with deep brown monkey-wise eyes in a face that does not look so much lined or aged as well-used...
...cent of downtown Boston, was built on fill. Beginning in 1857, railroad cars brought gravel from Needham every hour, day and night. After more than 30 years the entire area from the Boston Public Garden past Massachusetts Avenue to Charlesgate and south as far as Huntington and Columbus Avenues had been filled to a depth of twenty feet...
...most bizarre event of the week was a so-called "Peace" Mass at the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. The service opened with the entry of the Catholic choirs from the nation's three service academies. Then came 200 Knights of Columbus and Knights of St. John bearing swords, uniformed chaplains from various branches of the service, and 175 invited members of the hierarchy. Finally an armed color guard marched in. Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen gave the sermon in which he called for a return to "asceticism" as the way to peace...
...movie. Ryan O'Neil of Peyton Place fame plays the hockey jock, and Ali McGraw (who played a Cliffie in Goodbye, Columbus) plays his musical Cliffie. They meet first in some place called "the Radcliffe Library." then again at a Dunster House musical. Harvard will not allow Paramount Pictures to shoot scenes inside buildings other than the rink, so Dunster House and other interiors will be simulated at Fordham University, City College of New York, andin New York movie studios...