Word: hollywood
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More, More, More. Youngsters have taken Bell & Howell a long way. The founders, who stuck pretty much to movie equipment, provided Hollywood with its first reliable projectors and cameras, could fairly boast that they "took the flickers out of the flicks." Chuck Percy sought new fields, led Bell & Howell deep into such areas as microfilm and mailing systems, business machines and bindery gear...
Divorced. Gary Grant, 64, suave, handsome, debonair, altogether Hollywood's perfect gentleman; by Dyan Cannon, 30, sometime actress (Broadway's Ninety-Day Mistress); after 32 months of marriage, one child; in Los Angeles. Dyan and others testified that Gary had been "an apostle of LSD" for ten years; that he was subject to yelling and screaming fits," spanked her and hit her and promised to break her "like a pony," after which he would create "the wife I want" through the miracle of LSD. Grant denied all through his lawyers (he is in New York, recovering from auto...
Died. Charles Chaplin Jr., 42, eldest son of the comedian; of a heart attack; in Hollywood. Bedeviled by his name ("Sometimes I wish I was called James"), Charles Jr, never rose above bit parts in such dreadfuls as High School Confidential and Teacher Was a Sex Pot. His one claim to recognition was a 1960 biography, My Father, Charlie Chaplin, a sometimes fatuous but often illuminating account of life with daddy...
Died Harry Kurnitz, 60, one of Hollywood's most durable and successful screen writers; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles. Bon vivant, ladies' man, globetrotter, Kurnitz was never one to bite the hand that paid him. "I write like Pavlov's dog," he said. "I just start typing automatically in the morning. And in 30 years, he cranked out more than 40 scripts, some bad but quite a few good, among them 1944's See Here, Private Hargrove, 1957's Witness for the Prosecution and 1966's How to Steal a Million. Broadway...
...jowls reflect years of studied attention to the pleasure of the table. Rod Steiger's worth has increased with his girth: his current fee is $500,000 a film, and most producers feel that the price is right for one of the most convincing character actors in Hollywood history...