Word: director
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...three-man committee comprising a Los Angeles-area businessman, a U.S.C. dean and U.S.C. Professor Willard Beling, a former employee of Aramco (Arabian American Oil Co.) and holder of the Saudi-endowed King Faisal Chair of Islamic and Arab Studies. Beling would also become the center's director, and many of the faculty were fretting over his not being subject to the university's normal committee checks and balances in making appointments and running the center. Quipped one professor: "Why not just set up a feudal society on the campus and establish fiefdoms instead of departments...
...feel like a fish in water," says Actress-turned-Director Jeanne Moreau about her second stint behind the camera. The just finished film Adolescence deals with a 13-year-old Parisienne who goes to see her grandmother in the country and falls in love with a visiting doctor. The grandmother: Simone Signoret. "I was seduced by Moreau's persistence. I like to be chosen," says Signoret. She also likes her director. "Moreau gives actors intelligent explanations, as few directors who have never been actors can," she explains. As for Moreau, she regards directing as a step up. Says...
There are 35,000 American jumpers, including 17,000 addicts who belong to the U.S. Parachute Association. The number of jumpers has stayed about the same in the '70s. "When jumping started, there was a period of meteoric growth," says USPA Executive Director Bill Ottley. "Then all the kooky experimenters went into hang gliding and rock climbing...
...months of weightlessness. But a preliminary checkup showed that the cosmonauts had withstood their ordeal well, keeping in shape with rigorous exercises and the use of vacuum suits that forced their blood to circulate as if they were standing upright on earth. Encouraged by the results, Flight Director Alexei Yeliseyev contended that the Soviets could now send out manned space expeditions of practically unlimited duration...
Even without its star, First, You Cry would be superior television. The unusually high-powered cast includes Anthony Perkins, Jennifer Warren and Florence Eldridge as Rollin's family and friends. Director George Schaefer helps keep the story from sliding into soap opera. Carmen Culver's script is not afraid to deal frankly with the physiological, psychological, sexual and social cruelties of cancer. It is Moore, however, who gives what is essentially a public service drama its surprisingly fine emotional texture...