Word: darryl
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...used to sell biographies of Louis XIV and Stalin in the book section of the New York Times. As biographies become flabby compendia, so historical movies-with the notable exception of Rossellini's The Rise of Louis XIV -go up in factual pretension while they go down in quality. Darryl Zanuck in Tora! Tora! Tora! spent millions to reproduce historical fact, but sacrificed artistic coherence for lavish commercial packaging. Hughes' Cromwell also fails, though on a smaller scale. But even as a larger financial venture, Cromwell's soupy musical score would probably just have been soupier (kettle drums beating more...
...only son of Darryl F. Zanuck, the last of Hollywood's legendary moviemakers, Richard Darryl Zanuck had a compulsion to succeed in his father's business. Short and intense, he was once described by a tennis partner as the sort of player "who gives you the feeling that he'd like nothing better than to smash the ball between your eyes." Just 17 months ago, young Zanuck achieved his ambition at 20th Century-Fox, the studio his father helped to found in 1933. After a career as a producer (Compulsion, The Chapman Report) and later 20th Century...
...headquarters in Manhattan. A special committee appointed by the directors had recommended that top management be changed. Zanuck Sr., who is now 68 and chairman of the board, was saved the possible embarrassment of voting against his son. The meeting ended with Zanuck Jr.'s resignation. And Darryl Zanuck, who used to make and break stars, carve up bankers for breakfast, and once reputedly snapped at an assistant, "Don't say yes until I finish talking," was served a blunt notice. He will continue as chairman and chief executive "subject to the pleasure of the board...
Storm Over Myra. What had gone wrong? Father and son had apparently had a falling out on a number of matters. Darryl Zanuck favored shutting down the company's costly Hollywood studios and producing movies more cheaply abroad; Richard Zanuck wanted to keep the studios going, at least until current productions were finished. Besides their business disagreements, Richard Zanuck had been impolite enough not to find film jobs for his father's friend, Starlet Genevieve Gilles...
...Force is changing," he remarked at one point. "Today the officers are not Southern cops. We need good young officers who aren't afraid to think for themselves. It's the only way to change the system." Sandra Applebaugh was there but without her husband, Darryl Johnson, who is an Army major in Viet Nam. She recalled wistfully: "The most scandalous thing that ever happened to our class was when some guys got caught drinking beer backstage during a stage production." Gene George, president of the class of 1960, is now a geologist with an oil company...