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...Charlie Chaplin once," he says, standing in front of the Garden Court. "He was just walking down Hollywood Boulevard. And I saw Joan Blondell coming out of one of those fancy shops. I was at the age when I was sort of movie-struck, you know. I was collecting autographs. There used to be a beauty salon-it was on Sunset. I remember seeing Dick Powell pull up in one of those Cord automobiles. It was quite a place, Hollywood...
...biographies of Lyndon Johnson accuse him of both worldly corruption and spiritual hallucinations. Journalist Ronnie Bugger, for example, cites L.B.J.'s vivid conviction that he was talking regularly to the Holy Ghost-in person, like Joan...
...State University at Long Beach, he slick-talked his way into an interview with Sid Sheinberg, then president of Universal television, and on the strength of his short film Amblin', became the youngest director ever signed to a long-term Hollywood studio contract. At 21, he was putting Joan Crawford through the paces of a Night Gallery tale. He directed eleven episodes of various Universal series: a The Name of the Game here, a Columbo or The Psychiatrist there, displaying his tyro talent, learning the business. "TV taught me to think on my feet," he says. "You have...
...these programs. When Swearer in 1978 embarked upon a $158 million capital fund drive, instead of asking the faculty where it could cut back, he asked where it would add if it had more money. The result: highly motivated faculty members started defining their priorities and raising funds. Historian Joan Scott landed nearly $500,000 in grants for Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women. Just last summer, Swearer repositioned Brown's investment portfolio, moving away from tradition-bound companies to smaller firms that offered higher yields. He also put money into high-risk but potentially high-return...
...contrast, Too Far to Go is a no-fault movie. Actually it was, and remains, a television show, based on John Updike's short stories about how Joan and Richard Maple drifted apart. It is being given a second life in the theaters because someone up there at Francis Ford Coppola's Zoetrope Studios liked it and thought the film deserved a second chance. It is hard to see why. The Maples are a couple who seem to have no great quarrel with each other, therefore no reason for their philandering ways. Their divorce, when it comes...