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Later they joined an audience of about 400 in Sanders Theater to hear poet Anthony E. Hecht and Dr. Robert Coles '50, psychiatrist to the University Health Services, deliver the Phi Beta Kappa Poem and Oration...
...tempted to undermine the dignity of this occasion by offering a group of dirty limericks," Hecht said. Instead, he read two untitled poems, one of them contrasting the birth of his son to the carnage of the Vietnam...
...movie. Sam Goldwyn almost fired him three times because he insisted on putting so much make-up on that he was unrecognizeable. "He's the ugliest actor I've ever seen!" Goldwyn screamed at the director, William Wyler. Wuthering Heights was written by, of all people. Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur The script is the essence of the chord that less talented screenwriters tried to put out and couldn't. It gushes, but skillfully and effectively...
...When Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur wrote their hotfooted newspaper comedy nearly half a century ago, they started a kind of show-business dynasty. Besides stage revivals, there was a television series in 1949, and now a third movie version of The Front Page is out. The first film was produced in 1930, almost as soon as Hollywood found its tongue. It starred Pat O'Brien as Hildy Johnson, dervish of the deadline and past master of the fictitious fact, and Adolphe Menjou as his congenially mean-spirited editor, Walter Burns. Ten years later Howard Hawks changed the title...
Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond (who have collaborated on Some Like It Hot and The Apartment) give a friendly nod to Hecht's ghost by having Hildy speak of the time "Ben Hecht was leaving for Hollywood." But neither Hecht nor MacArthur could be expected to countenance what has been done to their original. Dialogue that should crackle like a telegraph has been slowed to the listless deliberation of a traffic cop writing out a ticket. Jack Lemmon makes a curiously enervated Hildy, and Walter Matthau's Burns is a shambling cynic too similar to his Odd Couple...