Word: gutman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...performances in this movie have become classic as the story and just as susceptible to imitation-often by the same people. Sidney Greenstreet has been playing Caspar Gutman ever since, and Peter Lorre has never quite gotten away from the frightened effeminate man in evening dress, cowering under Humphrey Bogart's open-handed smashes. Bogart, a fine actor in any role, sent a young generation out into the world with in scrutible smiles and tough wisecracks. The line: "If they give you twenty years, I'll wait for you; if they hang you, I'll always remember you," which Spade...
...valuable boss for the Met today-the tedious and complicated work of engaging artists, scheduling rehearsals, programming, and overseeing ticket sales. He also met two of the men who are now his right and left hands at the Met: Artistic Administrator Max Rudolf, 48, and General Assistant John Gutman, 48, who in the old days used to drop into the Darmstadt theater as music critic for the Berlin Börsen-Courier. Rudolf, then a conductor, recalls Bing and wife Nina as "a handsome couple," Bing himself as "a man I liked to talk to." Says another German critic...
...that he would like to do Wozzeck, but he cannot afford right now to overlook the fate of another contemporary opera, Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes, which was withdrawn after two seasons, so offended one opera lover that he spat in the box-office window. (Says John Gutman: "Whenever I mention Wozzeck, Bing threatens to put me in the box office." The Met still faces the problem of having to run a new production (cost: between $50,000 and $70,000) for at least five seasons to get its investment back...