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Based on research in a California veterans' hospital, Carl Foreman's script follows the daily life of a hospital for paraplegics: the routine, the physical trials, the mental scars. Much of it is bitter, engrossing stuff. Yet, as the paralyzed veterans fling barbed wisecracks at one another and their attendants, or cynically make light of their own condition, some of it is startlingly funny...
...production. As a big liquor wholesaler and distributor, he had also mastered the techniques of selling and distribution so well that he claimed to be grossing $20 million a year in 1946, when he sold out for $3,000,000. He felt well able to risk a $100,000 fling in television...
...apparent interest whatever in working his way from Broadway to the U.S.'s opera citadel, the Metropolitan. For one thing he had his fling at the Met before Broadway. His first opera, Amelia Goes to the Ball, composed when he was 25, was played for two seasons (seven performances) by the Met, and his third, The Island God, a flop, had four performances. He recalls the Met's productions with distaste: "For The Island God they dragged on some rocks that looked like the third act of Die Walkure." The Met's huge stage, ceremonial trappings...
...lost his job in Stalin's private secretariat. He found himself stuck in a secondary role in the Agricultural Administration. He dropped from fourth to ninth in Politburo listings (Zhdanov moved up from eighth to fourth). For his fling in ideological heresy, Malenkov was properly penitent and rueful, and on the next throw he moved forward again. In 1947, at the birth of the Cominform in Poland, Zhdanov, the party theoretician, had to share leadership with Malenkov, the party organizer...
...Town. A fast, exuberant song & dance show about three sailors on a 24-hour fling in Manhattan; with Gene Kelly (TIME...