Word: directors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...defense budget that many consider a prime cause of inflation, jettisoned the Air Force's six-year-old space-exploration project known as MOL, for Manned Orbiting Laboratory. By dropping the program, the Administration will save just over half of MOL's $3 billion projected cost. Budget Director Robert P. Mayo announced that henceforth the defense budget will receive the same scrutiny as that of any other department, instead of going directly to the President -though skeptics doubted whether the new ruling would last beyond the first showdown between Mayo and Laird...
...most famous unmarrieds in recent years, of course, were Carlo Ponti and Sophia Loren; Ponti eventually became a French citizen in order to marry her. Film Director Michelangelo Antonioni and Actress Monica Vitti lived in separate apartments with a connecting interior staircase, until Antonioni won an annulment and the two were married. In less sophisticated circles, extramarital relationships are also common and accepted. "You want to know which of your friends are living together," says a Milan doctor, "not for gossip or to spread scandal, but to know how to address invitations to your parties...
...York Philharmonic would have liked Leonard Bernstein to stay on forever as its music director. But since he announced 21 years ago that he would quit to devote more time to composing, the orchestra has been pondering a successor, well aware that Lennie would be a tough act to follow. Who could match the famous Bernstein skill, glamour, showmanship and popularity? Last week the orchestra directors courageously and imaginatively picked a man who might just do it. In Pierre Boulez, 44, the French avant-garde composer-conductor, the Philharmonic is betting its future on a musical pied piper...
...director like John Ford, if he thought this tedious two-hour tale worth the telling, could have done it in a tight ninety minutes. Leone spends most of his time focusing on the actors' eyes squinting tensely into the camera lens. The intent is operatic, but the effect is soporific. Stuck in this gluepot horse opera, such veteran range hands as Henry Fonda, Claudia Cardinale and Keenan Wynn struggle helplessly and often hysterically. But the picture, such as it is, belongs to Charles Bronson. A flinty character actor who has appeared in everything from The Great Escape...
...films like the Boy Scouts," claims Producer-Director Russ Meyer. "I want absolutely no hanky-panky on the set. You can't expect two people who have been balling the night before to turn in a convincing performance the next...