Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...BURNING GLASS, by S. N. Behrman. Set in Salzburg, New York and Hollywood during the '30s, the celebrated playwright's first novel tells of the shifting fortunes of a group of intellectuals and socialites who make very agreeable company...
Buckley: I don't think it is right to present Mr. Gore Vidal as a political commentator of any consequence, since he is nothing more than a literary producer of perverted Hollywood-minded prose...
...Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has now ruled otherwise. An IRS investigation, said that court, is the kind of hearing Congress had in mind when it provided for fees. The fact that the Robertses were being investigated is irrelevant. Result: the Robertses, who live in Hollywood, Fla., will have to be paid 10? per mile for the 20-mile trip to and from the IRS office in Fort Lauderdale. And they will get $4 a day for every day the hearing lasts. Presumably, the same balm is now available to anyone who is called in for a going-over...
Best of the bunch is Pete Rose, 26, a brassy, bristle-topped Irishman, whose flip tongue and frenetic brand of baseball have injected fresh breath into an increasingly stale game. His zest once branded him a showoff. "In the minors, they called me 'Hot Dog' and 'Hollywood,' " he snorts, "but they don't holler at me in the majors." They certainly don't. Spraying hits from either side of the plate, Rightfielder Rose has batted better than .300 in each of the past three seasons. This year, with a .327 average, he is fighting...
...acquisition of MCA goes through, Westinghouse will be getting a studio that accounts for 151 hours a week of network TV's prime-time output (The Virginian, It Takes a Thief and Ironside) and has turned out some of Hollywood's most profitable full-length features (Thoroughly Modern Millie, The Secret War of Harry Frigg). The biggest plums are the potential TV receipts from MCA's library of 1,954 feature films, including 700 Paramount features that Wasserman shrewdly bought up ten years ago, and the company's real estate properties, notably its $1 billion Universal...