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...truth about Goldwyn was more interesting than any one-liner. He was, for example, the only producer in history who was named after one of his own corporations. Born in a Polish ghetto, he received his first American name - Goldfish - from an immigration official when he arrived in New York City in 1896 as a 13-year-old. Under it, he prospered as a glove salesman and entered the movies as a partner of Jesse L. Lasky and Cecil B. DeMille. In 1913 they made The Squaw Man, one of the first feature-length films produced in Hollywood. The trio...
...including Snow White and the seven dwarfs. "It was the schlock of the 1930s that made up my creative mentality," says Sendak. He continues: "Two years ago, I saw Walt Disney's Pinocchio and loved it, even though the Blue Fairy looked like Joan Bennett and Cleo the Goldfish looked like a drag queen...
...some processes are tough to reverse, and pollution is prominent among them. Most of the Charles's fish are dead, for example, although there are still occasional schools of goldfish to startle the unwary passerby. "The first ones to die are the nicest ones, really," Noss said mournfully. "Trout need five parts oxygen per million, and carp need only point five parts. And down at the bottom of the Lower Basin, it's constant by now, really, there's almost no oxygen at all, so there are no organisms to clean...
...very ill?" asked West. Indeed not, replied the chief usher. John had nothing more than a medium case of the sniffles. You see, he explained, "this goldfish bowl is made of magnifying glass...
Adjoining the newsroom set familiar to 14 million nightly viewers, Cronkite's small office is a glass-walled goldfish bowl in a sea of activity. Behind his desk rest several joking tributes, including two framed New Yorker cartoons (caption on one showing a man avidly facing his TV set: "OK, Cronkite, lay it on me"). Tanned, younger looking than he seems on the tube, Cronkite lounges in his chair and talks about forthcoming TV technology...