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What do Benjamin Kubelsky, Israel Iskowitz and Nathan Birnbaum have in common? Ditto Julius Garfinkle, Issur Danielovich and Bernard Schwartz? Also Laszlo Lowenstein, Jill Oppenheim, Muni Weisenfreund and Betty Joan Perske...
...probable role in the origin of life by bringing with them the chemical precursors of life, in the form of amino acids and other molecules. However, this theory was suggested by me almost 25 years ago, and not as you say by the scientists Francis Crick and Leslie Orgel. Joan Oró, Professor Biochemical and Biophysical Sciences University of Houston Houston...
...series, called the PEN Celebrations, played first at the Booth and later at the Roy ale on Broadway, donated for the purpose by the Shubert Organization. Among the writers who appeared were Joan Didion, Susan Sontag, William Styron, John Updike, Woody Allen and Mailer himself, who agreed to debate sometime Archrival Gore Vidal. Indeed, the Vidal-Mailer matchup was a major draw for the series, and no wonder: their previous encounters have been dramatic, head-butting and drink-throwing affairs. But the latest showdown was disappointing. "A meeting between two toothless tigers," Mailer called...
People Will Talk is shot through with the author's quirky preferences and prejudices. He finds that Director Joseph Mankiewicz often "knows more than we do and he's not going to tell us, and I don't like being talked down to." Yet he has enormous enthusiasm for Joan Crawford's "great talent." Appropriately enough, it is these quirky standards that make all 43 testimonies alternately entertaining, poignant and, in the end, indispensable...
Film buffs may regard the '30s and '40s as the Periclean Age of Celluloid. But those on the other side of the screen tended to view themselves as galley slaves. Joan Blondell reports, "During the Depression I was making more than six pictures a year. I made six pictures while carrying my son and eight with my daughter. They'd get me behind desks and behind barrels and throw tables in front of me to hide my growing tummy." Dancer Eleanor Powell runs into a friend, a film cutter at MGM, and lunches with him at the studio commissary. That...