Word: director
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...quite, relates the Rev. Carl Bielby, director of social services for the Detroit Council of Churches, who organized the counseling service 20 months ago. The driver of the car was indeed a police officer. But he was bringing his own unmarried, pregnant daughter for counseling. The minister sat down with the two and outlined the procedure for going outside Michigan for an abortion that would have been impossible at home...
Perhaps because of his embarrassment over his novel's exquisite self-revelations, Vidal failed in two efforts to bring off a light, witty scenario. Director Michael Same (Joanna) then tried his pen?to just about everyone's displeasure. Finally, a Hollywood genius-presumptive named David Giler, 26, was called in. To complicate matters, Mae West has insisted on writing her own lines. The script is now in its tenth rewrite, and the ending has yet to be decided upon. Regardless of what is done to the script, the success or failure of Myra ultimately hinges on the girl who wants...
...heads together." The result of this cerebral huddle was the creation?three weeks later?of Curtwel enterprises. Shortly thereafter, things began to happen. Bikini picture in LIFE. Billboard girl on ABC-TV's Hollywood Palace. Twentieth Century-Fox contract. Said Fox Talent Director Owen McLean: "We thought we would build her up slowly; that it would take some time. But she got more publicity by accident than most girls get on purpose...
...fitfully, oh so fitfully. Raquel's iron will and her proven ability to hog the spotlight were put to their most severe test. For sheer incompatibility, the volatile cast of Myra is rivaled only by the Burton-Lyon-Gardner gallimaufry of Night of the Iguana. There is crustaceous Veteran Director John Huston portraying Uncle Buck Loner, the sagebrush sybarite. Huston, an inveterate cigar smoker, has been unhappy with a no-smoking clause that Mae West had written into her contract. There is the epicene Rex Reed, who eats peaches, scribbles notes for his book (about the making of Myra, naturally...
...Thank God, I am still an atheist," claims Director Luis Buñuel. On that rock he has built his crutch-a lifelong obsession with Spanish Catholicism. In a career that spans four decades and nearly 40 films, Bunñel, now 69, has occasionally abandoned the object of his love-hate, as in the erotic trivia of Belle de Jour. But such lapses are brief. With The Milky Way the grand old unbeliever returns to his favorite theme in a magical mystery tour of the dogma, hypocrisy and glories of Christianity...