Word: evan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Twelve road shows--each expected to run from two to 12 months--will clog the Sack schedule during the coming year. Films guaranteed a showing must wait months to get into town. If Doctor Doolittle must be postponed, there is little chance to see a smaller film like Edith Evan's The Whisperers. This fall, in an unprecedented move, Funny Girl is to be opened simultaneously in the three Cheri theatres. It will be easier to see Funny Girl, but there will be fewer new films because of a lack of theatres. In any case, there is yet no evidence...
Paramount has put Vice President Robert Evans, 37, in charge of production. A reformed clothing manufacturer and failed actor, Bob Evans invaded the Hollywood hierarchy like a character from a '30s scenario. The co-founder of the fashion firm Evan-Picone, Evans was lounging by the pool of the Beverly Hills Hotel one day in 1956, when Norma Shearer gave him the eye; she just knew that he was the ideal man to play her late husband, Irving Thalberg, in a movie called The Man of a Thousand Faces. For three years Evans sleepwalked his way through the kind...
Although conservative agents mutter in their tweeds about such practices, many have learned the game. Yet Meredith remains the master auctioneer. For Mystery Writer Evan Hunter, he got a $550,000 advance on two novels and nine "Ed McBain" thrillers; for Irving Shulman (Valentino), $100,000 apiece for his next two books; for Science Fictioneer Arthur C. Clarke, $160,000 for one book; for Whodunit Author Richard Prather (The Kubla Khan Caper), $1.1 million for 20 paperbacks...
...example is its new Graduate School of Criminal Justice, headed by Richard Myren, a chemist with a law degree. He is collecting an interdisciplinary team of sociologists, psychologists, historians and lawyers to apply their combined knowledge to the problems of crime, the courts, prisons and police. Declares President Evan Collins: "We're in a position to bring in the best faculty in the country-and we're doing...
...departmental audits. "This strikes me as being the real payoff. There is nothing like it anywhere," Dean Monro, one of the HPC's staunchest allies, has said. When this program was originally set up during the HPC's first year, chairman Michael E. Abram '66 and audit committee chairman Evan Davis '66 planned to investigate seven departments a year, so that each department would be reviewed every four years...