Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Married. Maureen O'Hara, 47, Dublin's durable gift to Hollywood (50 films so far); and Charles Blair, 58, Pan American pilot who met Maureen in Ireland 21 years ago and earned his own fame in 1951 as the first man to solo over the North Pole in a single-engined plane; both for the third time; in St. Thomas...
...Legend has it that Spiegel signed the two by assuring each that the other was committed to the project, then obtaining bank financing by claiming that both were signed. Everyone fell for the bait and Spiegel made the deal. Regardless of the percentage of actual fact in this story, Hollywood attributes to Spiegel a pretty fair job of wheeler-dealing in launching The African Queen toward production...
...that served good food and stayed open late." As he sees it, The Factory's main achievement has been "melding the dinner jackets and the blue jeans. You dig? No one is embarrassed; nobody cares." Brightening the ambiance no end is the fact that some of Hollywood's prettiest girls (who need not be members) show up in the briefest dresses, and dance the wildest steps. Said one new visitor: "The only thing missing are the beds...
...fortune cookies, to be cracked continually like homicide cases. Created in the late '20s by Earl Diggers as the hero of a whodunit series, Charlie had the shortcoming of his country's cooking-two hours after he solved a case, audiences were hungry for another sleuthing. Hollywood tried to oblige: between 1926 and 1949, it turned out 47 Charlie Chan features and serials. There were also such spin-offs as a comic strip, a radio show and a short-lived TV series. Last week Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, which is more accustomed to honoring film...
That is the script's main-and almost only-joke. As the story's central character, Actor Segal shows flashes of a comic talent hitherto unexplored by Hollywood. But what picture there is for stealing is burgled by Wiseman with his portrayal of a stereotypical literateur. As lofty as Edmund Wilson, he pronounces Jehovah-like judgments on literature and humanity, while for his livelihood, he caters to audiences of culture-ridden housewives who beg, "Please, my Debbie wanted me to ask you about Philip Roth...