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...freer, more personal films that flowed from its success, Nicholson became a kind of figurehead for a loose group of actors and film makers who were trying to expand the commercial genre. Nicholson, Actors Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper, Writer-Directors Bob Rafelson, Monte Hellman, Carol and Charles Eastman-none of them then well known-all cheered and boosted each other. Their work was almost always full of aggressive invention (Rafelson's Five Easy Pieces, Hopper's The Last Movie, Nicholson's own Drive, He Said), but the new Hollywood passed, the victim of erratic returns...
...lapsed memories must have appealed to Nicholson's sense of irony, and worked as well on his aggressive sense of pride. He enrolled in a beginner's acting course run by Actor Jeff Corey. Other pupils included James Coburn, Sally Kellerman, Producer Roger Corman, Writers Carol Eastman and Robert Towne. Nicholson and Towne (who was later to write the screenplays of The Last Detail and Chinatown) hit it off immediately and shared a small apartment on the hungry fringes of Hollywood. Both of them had crushes on every actress in the class, Towne remembers. "But we never...
Other brokerages also are scrambling for survival. Last month, Blyth Eastman Dillon broke off merger talks with Paine, Webber, Jackson & Curtis, then promptly closed ten of its 55 branch offices and fired 350 employees. Hayden Stone Inc. and Shearson, Hammill are preparing for a merger by Labor Day; reports are circulating on the Street that as many as 1,000 employees will be laid off. Perhaps 100 other firms are talking merger, and the best guess as to how many more Big Board brokerages will merge or liquidate by the end of the year...
...Project on Corporate Responsibility has called on five corporations--Union Oil, Gulf, Warner-Lambert, Eastman Kodak and International Telephone and Telegraph--to amend their bylaws to prohibit contributions to political campaigns...
...getting black businesses started. His only setback came in 1967 when he lost to Walter B. Wriston in a competition for chairmanship of the U.S.'s second largest bank. Not being No. 1 cramped him, though, and Wilcox quit in 1971 to join the investment firm of Blyth, Eastman, Dillon & Co. There, says a friend, he turned down "about 50,000 job offers." Then Crocker offered him an irresistible challenge. Gauging Wilcox's reputation, one Crocker banker looks ahead and says, "A lot of people here will have to start working hard again...