Word: ernestness
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...DIED. ERNEST LEHMAN, 89, protean Hollywood screenwriter; in Los Angeles. Though he specialized in adapting popular stage works such as West Side Story, The Sound of Music and Hello, Dolly! for movies in the 1960s, he achieved his greatest glory a decade earlier with the Burt Lancaster-Tony Curtis film Sweet Smell of Success and Alfred Hitchcock's smartest, snazziest caper, North by Northwest. Lehman never won an Oscar, but he became the first screenwriter ever awarded an honorary...
...DIED. ERNEST LEHMAN, 89, protean Hollywood screenwriter; in Los Angeles. Though in the 1960s he specialized in adapting stage works such as West Side Story, The Sound of Music and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, he achieved his greatest glory the previous decade, when he used his background in publicity to craft two glorious Broadway vipers, J.J. Hunsecker (Burt Lancaster) and Sidney Falco (Tony Curtis), for the film Sweet Smell of Success, and wrote Alfred Hitchcock's smartest, snazziest caper, North by Northwest. In 2001 he became the first screenwriter to be awarded an honorary Oscar...
...after Wallis' father died when she was only a few months old. She married her first husband, Earl Winfield Spencer Jr., a Navy officer, in 1916. Intensely jealous, he occasionally locked her in her room; they were divorced in 1927 after years of separation. The following year she married Ernest Simpson, a quiet, scholarly, American-born Briton, also recently divorced, whose family had a prospering shipping firm...
When money is at stake, family ties can be stretched thin indeed. The largest U.S. winemakers, Ernest and Julio Gallo of Modesto, Calif., have filed suit in U.S. district court in Fresno against their younger brother, Joseph Gallo, for alleged trademark infringement and unfair competition. Reason: since 1984, Joseph, a longtime California-based wholesale producer of meats and cheeses, has been marketing a retail brand under the name Joseph Gallo cheese...
...Ernest, 77, and Julio, 76, say they bear no ill will toward Joseph, 66, but insist they must protect their trademark rights on principle. Otherwise, they argue, anyone would be able to use the family name. But Joseph, who is preparing a countersuit, was upset by a statement in his brothers' suit that shipments of the disputed cheese could conceivably become contaminated and damage the image of Gallo wines, which have been produced since 1933. Joseph's lawyer, John Whiting, points out that the cheeses have won gold medals at the past two Orange County fairs in California. Says Whiting...