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Married. Otto Preminger, 53, bagel-bald Hollywood producerdirector; and Brunette Patricia Hope Bryce, 29, one of the highest-paid U.S. fashion models; he for the third time, she for the second; in Haifa, Israel, where he is filming Leon Uris' Exodus...
...Exodus. Others besides Hedda were worried. The spectacle of millionaire movie actors lined up with extras against the men who once ran the town suggested to Hollywood oldtimers the end of an era. In fact, that era had ended long ago. "I'm not going to start another picture," said M-G-M Producer Joe Pasternak, "until the actors decide to give the business back to the bosses." But there are virtually no bosses around to take it back...
...followed the sun westward generations ago to build their dream world on the Hollywood lots are dead, dying or dispersed. Harassed by taxes, producers and actors have split Hollywood into countless independent corporations that make more and more of their movies abroad. The strike has only hastened the exodus of hangers-on, the hard-up hopefuls who could never make it unless the whole town was working; even if the strike is settled, many of them will never be back in movies...
...Exodus, Uris...
...foot-deep with bird droppings and dust, which rose in choking clouds around the explorers. In one, amidst the midden, was a vulture's nest. With unliterary impartiality, the vultures had used fragments of parchment to complete the nest. On one fragment 16 verses of the Book of Exodus were written in Hebrew script that was current in Jerusalem about 130 A.D. This and other evidence convinced Israeli scholars that the cave had been a refuge of last-ditch followers of the self-styled Messiah Bar Kochba, who led the Jews in a desperate three-year revolt against...