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...return of his income, his distaste for screenwriting work, combined with a long string of personal failures, must have undercut his sense of success. From his early fight with producer Joe Mankiewicz, who re-wrote his script for The Three Comrades when Fitzgerald screamed that the film would flop, to his embarassing hospitalization after a drinking bout on the Dartmouth set of Winter Carnival, Fitzgerald's years in Hollywood forced him to abandon his dream of America's materialistic ideal. He simply could not write his best and make the most money. In failing to understand Fitzgerald's disillusionment, Dardis...
...might, however, Carr remained a 310-lb. flop on the social circuit. As his old friend and sometime business partner, ex-Actor Roger Smith (Ann-Margret's husband), puts it, "He was just not pleasant to look at." On Smith's advice, Carr underwent an operation that tied off 18 ft. of intestines and helped to pare his 5-ft. 7-in. frame to a relatively sylphlike...
...Republican National Committee, will be one of the few women with a key role. Named party chairman by Ford shortly after he became President in 1974, she was widely regarded as a caretaker who would swiftly be replaced. An ill-advised public relations scheme that included a costly television flop (Republicans Are People Too) seemed to ensure her early departure. But the gentle mother of three and grandmother of five proved to have staying power. When the convention is called to order at 10:30 a.m. next Monday, Ford backer Mary Louise Smith, a native of Eddyville, Iowa, will...
...Producers. Mel Brook's first feature, and an absolute must. Flawed by an overly sentimental ending, but the basic premise is golden--a Broadway producer on the skids (Zero Mostel) figures out that he can make more money on a flop than he can on a hit. He searches for the worst play ever written, and finds "Springtime for Hitler," a drama about Adolph and Eva at Berchtesgarten by a crazed ex-Nazi living in the Village. Mostel is brilliant--wooing funds from adoring septuagenarians, manipulating his timid bookkeeper (Gene Wilder) into compliance with his scheme...
...favorite, but showed himself a shallow, inept candidate in the primaries; Jackson, who would draw Jewish support but was even more deadly on the stump than Bayh; and Maine's Senator Ed Muskie, who is a tested leader, but is seen as a failed candidate since his 1972 flop. Two men unlikely to be considered are Congressman Mo Udall, who pointedly pricked the usually controlled Carter temper the last couple of months, and California Governor Jerry Brown, who Carter staffers say has been flatly ruled out on the basis of too little experience and too much eccentricity. Carter...