Word: huston
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sits there like a little mouse, looking so cute," says Barnaby Conrad Jr., the author and West Coast restaurateur, "but there's nothing but vitriol in her typewriter." Movie Director John Huston calls her "the best reporter I've ever known." Says Bill Mauldin, Chicago Sun-Times cartoonist: "Anybody who holds still for an interview by her is taking an awful chance, because he could very well lose a lot of skin." These contradictory observations stem from a common experience. Conrad, Huston and Mauldin all held still for interviews by Lillian Ross. Their names appear, amid a host...
...York visit of the Bean Blossom Township High School's 1960 senior class - a narrative so coldly and devastatingly honest that, even today, at least one Bean Blossom faculty member cannot think about it without getting mad. In Picture, she exhaustively tracks the course of John Huston's film, The Red Badge of Courage, from conception to box office - where it flopped. After that dissection, doors slammed shut on Lillian Ross all over Hollywood...
...Hollywood's best story tellers, Lorre was a favorite on movie sets. Stars, electricians and bystanders would group around him as he told of escapades with Humphrey Bogart, Sidney Greenstreet and John Huston--the "unholy four" of warner Bros. Who made the memorable "Maltese Falcon...
...psychiatrist and a philosophy professor renewed the debate on consciousness-expanding drugs last night. At the Ford Hall Forum in Boston, Dr. Gerald L. Klerman and Huston Smith, professor of philosophy at M.I.T., discussed whether drugs such as psilocybin can benefit mankind, and found themselves in sharp disagreement...
...annual dinner of the Writers' Guild of America is one of those har-de-har-har festivals like Washington's Gridiron Club and Manhattan's Circus Saints & Sinners meetings. This year the tone was set early when John Huston arose to accept an award for advancing "the literature of the motion picture through the years." He waved a bottle of champagne at the cheering masses, declaring that he was drinking to them all "from an overflowing cup, with an overflowing heart." Champagne foamed out of his glass and down over his dinner jacket like a cataract...