Word: hurs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sisters shun the seamy side of Hollywood with Victorian primness. They are less interested in Charlton Heston's love life than in how he kept fit for all those chariot rides in Ben-Hur. "This means a lot to the reader," Reba says...
...Hope's salad days: "He was handsome then-big chest, hard stomach. Of course, that's all behind him now." . . . Stage realism is all very well, but Actor Hugh Griffith, 50, a 1960 Oscar winner for his comic role as the chariot-racing Sheik Ilderim in Ben-Hur, laid it on a mite thick. Standing atop a wooden box in London's Aldwych Theater for a mock hanging scene in Bertolt Brecht's The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Griffith slipped, felt the noose tighten round his neck, and blacked out gurgling. First came the smelling salts, then...
...Gesture. West Side Story won the Oscar for best film of the year, sweeping with it almost as many subsidiary Oscars as 1959's Ben-Hur (which set a record by copping eleven). West Side Story's George Chakiris and Rita Moreno won the awards for best supporting actor and actress. They beat out Montgomery Clift and Judy Gar land of Judgment at Nuremberg, which probably reflects the voters' disapproval of major stars lusting after minor Oscars. In an upset almost as surprising as Sophia's, Switzerland's Maximilian Schell (Nuremberg} was named...
...sliding steel doors, into a giant indoor county, complete with pocket oceans for underwater scenes. A sort of Cecil B. DeMilione, he recently completed Barabbas with a cast of 8,000, many of whom are lions. And now he is preparing for the motion picture that will make Ben-Hur seem like a minor travelogue, the ultimate, untoppable, millennial religious epic -a $30 million, twelve-hour adaptation of The Bible. De Laurentiis will stick with the original title...
...roads are expected to approve the merger at the annual meetings in May. Approval from the sympathetic Interstate Commerce Commission will come-if ever-only after tedious deliberations in which town after town will object to losing tax revenues from consolidation of Pennsy and Central terminals. Still another hur dle lies in the attitude of Justice Department trustbusters, who have taken no position so far but who might argue that the sheer bigness of the merged railroad would outweigh the fierce competition it would face from trucks, airlines and cars. Even if everyone else approves, the roads will certainly face...