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...sometimes a difficult task--it works only using their own wildly glorified terms of what constitutes human success and failure. Collier and Horowitz consequently spend a great deal of time building up the awesome status of the family in order to be able to bill it later as a flop. The status, of course, has always been there, and is easy to portray; this is without question the richest and most powerful family America has ever seen, and the reach of its money and influence is staggering. The failures, however, are a little forced. Nelson got divorced and remarried, something...
Despite writers' complaints, TV appearances undoubtedly increase sales. Ten minutes on the Today show, for example, may sell as many as 5,000 copies. But authors of novels that do not have mass appeal usually find the cost in energy greater than the returns. Some writers flop so badly on radio and television that they may even hurt sales. Irv Kupcinet, who conducts the Chicago-based Kup's Show, will even call publishers to suggest they cut short tours that he believes will be unproductive. He explains: "Some authors give this backward projection, and I tell the publisher...
...work. Nothing seems to bubble up unbidden out of his unconscious, out of those memories he must surely share with all actors, of bad ideas tried out in rehearsal and found embarrassing, of nights when he must have felt he was going to boil in his own flop sweat. It was those memories-a performer's kinship acknowledged-that informed Olivier's work and, finally, humanized and redeemed his Archie. The recognition of self in the role of Archie and the willingness to admit it are beyond Lemmon. He is distant, predictable and therefore boring...
...does not believe a single flop will cost him his ability to ere, ate independently, though he may occasionally think of a line in The Killing, his first major studio release in 1956. A thief muses that people romanticize gangsters and artists, but they are also eager to see them brought...
...theaters but in few other places. To Composer Toshiro Mayuzumi, Western music has become a symbol of Japanese learning and culture. "The visit of the Met is another step in their education," he says. The Met seems to have learned something too. The 1966 Paris trip was an artistic flop because of questionable repertory and eccentric casting. This time the company realistically drew on its greatest strength: the presentation of standard operas with the best casts available in the world...