Word: director
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...review of Madame Bovary, TIME has a good word for the stars, producer and director. But the guy who, along with Gustave Flaubert, gave all these people, including TIME'S astute reviewer, something to shine at-Screenwriter Robert Ardrey, was referred to only as "the Hollywood version...
Surely, it is at least as much to the credit of Writer Ardrey as Producer Berman and Director Minelli that the picture "stoutly refused to spice up the sin or gloss over the grimness of Emma's life . . ." If writers were not such forgotten men in Hollywood [you might have] a few more good pictures . . . to list as Current & Choice...
...diehards of the Far Eastern Division, led by Assistant Secretary for Far Eastern Affairs, W. Walton Butterworth (whose May appointment has not yet been confirmed in the Senate), will not budge from their static "wait-until-the-dust-settles" strategy. But a dissenting group, led by Director George Kennan, the Department's policy-planning troubleshooter, is demanding some attempt, however limited, to regain the initiative for the U.S. after its catastrophic failure in the Orient...
...Paris, a blonde authoress-movie director, Nicole Vedrès, was shooting a film with an all-star cast: Painter Pablo Picasso, Novelist André Gide, Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre, Architect Le Corbusier, Writer Jacques Prévert, Atomic Scientist Frédéric Joliot-Curie. Their roles required them to enact themselves at work and at play, chatting about what the world was coming to. Said Picasso, who played quiet scenes with Gide (see cut) and mugged with Prévert: "We had a terrific time...
...Texas Cancer Bulletin was started early in 1948 by Dr. Randolph Lee Clark Jr., director of Texas University's M.D. Anderson Hospital for Cancer Research, in Houston. He had a sound idea: most cancer patients are seen first by general practitioners who cannot cull all the journals for specialized articles; therefore they should be taught, through short, snappy, easy-to-read articles, how to spot the disease quickly...