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Dates: during 1970-1979
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David O. Selznick was worried. A scene in Duel in the Sun called for some off-camera sex between Gregory Peck and Jennifer Jones. Selznick needed "screwing music," but Composer Dimitri Tiomkin's score had a windy, rasping sound. "Dimitri, the music doesn't have enough shtup," Selznick said. "It doesn't sound like the way I make love." Tiomkin defended his score. "You love your way and I'll love mine," he said. "To me, that's lovemaking music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Reels of Sound | 9/8/1975 | See Source »

...initially dismisses his partners' charges of divine intelligence or beauty as hogwash. "Don't make him out to be more than he is. He's just a dumb garbage bucket." But as the chase goes on, he finds himself more drawn to the fish, almost hypnotized into the death duel. "Brody saw fever in Quint's face--a heat that lit up his dark eyes, an intensity that drew his lips back from his teeth in a crooked smile, an anticipation that strummed the sinews in his neck and whitened his knuckles." To Quint the fish is real because...

Author: By Irene Lacher, | Title: Tooth Decay | 8/5/1975 | See Source »

...pitcher--three or four pitchers, for that matter. Boston's league-leading activity should not obscure the fact that its pitching staff ranges from erratic to pathetic: the team tends to win games by scores like 11: 8, 10-9, a match of 7-5 is a veritable duel of greathurlers. An Earned Run Average of 3.50 is unheard of, and the relief pitching is so bad that the bullpen ought to be seized by a people's tribunal and converted into several homes for working-class families. Even the cheerleading Boston press has become exasperated with this bunch: Globe...

Author: By Richard Turner, | Title: Introducing...the Boston Red Sox | 7/15/1975 | See Source »

...content to duel Hugh Hefner on the newsstands, Penthouse Publisher Bob Guccione seems determined to outdo the Playboy prince in the real estate department too. Guccione has paid more than $1 million in cash for the 40-room Manhattan mansion that once belonged to Financier Jeremiah Milbank, and he is preparing to spend another $1 million or so to have it "all redone in Italian Renaissance, very classical and simple." Besides a Roman-bath swimming pool and quarters for nine live-in servants, Guccione's digs will also feature accommodations for visiting Penthouse pets, but with some differences from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 23, 1975 | 6/23/1975 | See Source »

...back at Universal months later, on the strength of a student film that had caught the eye of one of the executives. For the next four years, Spielberg directed television: episodes of Marcus Welby, Columbo, The Psychiatrist and a Movie of the Week called Duel, which amply demonstrated his talents. A chilling little tale of a motorist pursued through the Southwest by a semi whose driver is never seen, Duel got Spielberg his first feature, The Sugarland Express. It was a movie with the sort of brio and elaborate technical command that made Spielberg, in the producers' view, just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SUMMER OF THE SHARK | 6/23/1975 | See Source »

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