Word: friends
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wide-screen way that he made famous as boss of 20th Century-Fox, Spyros P. Skouras once wired a troubled friend: "NO MARINER EVER DIS TINGUISHED HIMSELF ON A SMOOTH SEA." Now, at 75, the man who launched Titanic is in the midst of a real-life sea story. Skouras and his 45-year-old son, Spyros S., are becoming maritime moguls, and the sailing seems smooth...
...enthusiastic mimic. "He takes all the parts in every story and really makes you see the people. He is the best storyteller I know," says Novelist Brian Moore. Lately he has become more wary. "I would call him a manic repressive," says Writer Albert Goldman, an old friend. "He knows he could be rocketed too high-the new hero who is all brains and sex. Actually, he is probably happiest working in monastic solitude." In recent years he has lived in Manhattan, a dashing, dark-featured bachelor with a beautiful blonde at his side. But now he is back...
...temperament, and he delighted in mocking the romantic conventions of his day. In an early poem, The Caucasian Captive, he had a maiden fall into a stream and the hero refuse to jump in and rescue her. "I've swum in Caucasian streams," Pushkin explained to a friend. "You can easily drown without finding a damn thing...
...mass public mourning that swept over Russia at the news of the poet's death surprised the fashionable people who had known him mainly as a strange, seedy aristocrat, a facile versifier, and a nuisance. "We were acquainted with him," one foreign diplomat wonderingly observed to a Russian friend, "but none of you ever told us that he was your na tional pride...
...turns out that Bitos is not an unlikely man for the part of Robespierre since he once ordered his closest friend killed because this friend had collaborated with the Germans during the war ten years ago. Anouilh rails at this bit of petty bureaucratic brutality be linking this act of Bitos' to the tortuous reasoning by which Robespierre condemned some of his closest associates to the guillotine...