Word: director
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...film will then open in 700 theaters in most of the English-speaking world, and the rest of the globe will wait until early next year. "It's a kids' movie that adults will go to that kids will like," is the rather convoluted way that Director Richard Donner, 48, explains Superman's appeal. "No," says Producer Ilya Salkind, 31, who often disagrees with Donner. "It's an adult picture that kids will see." No, again, says Co-Producer Pierre Spengler, also 31, who sometimes disputes...
Taken as a whole, however, Superman works, and works well. That is all the more surprising because, despite the years of hoopla over Cannes, real production work did not begin until January 1977, when Donner was brought in as director, Barry, 42, was hired as set designer, and Tom Mankiewicz, 35, was asked to do a third rewrite of the script (after Mario Puzo and the team of Robert Benton and David and Leslie Newman...
Back in the U.S., Baldrige became Tiffany's first woman executive, their public relations director. When the Kennedys moved into the White House, Tish became Jackie's social secretary, as well as J.F.K.'s protocol officer. She loved the work, although she was disconcerted to find that practically every man who took her out was playing her for a power angle at the White House. She became promotions director at the Kennedys' Merchandise Mart in 1963, then opened her own p.r. company in Chicago. Six years later she folded it to go to New York City...
...alter the play's design is to destroy it, so Director Robert Mulligan (Bloodbrothers) has changed virtually nothing. On Broadway, the curtain came down after each scene; in the so-called cinematic version, Same Time, Next Year is pockmarked by photomontages that allegedly set up the story's different periods. Yet Mulligan's faithfulness to the text only reveals the flaws in Same Time, Next Year...
...became the first white man to capture the reptile, the world's oldest and, at 10 ft. and 250 Ibs., largest lizard; of the 14 specimens he collected, two may be seen in the American Museum of Natural History. Burden's exploits inspired a friend, Film Director Merian Cooper, to make King Kong. Interested in filming undersea life, Burden in 1938 joined with Ilia Tolstoy, grandson of the Russian writer, and Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney to open Marineland, a studio aquarium near St. Augustine...