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...late Hollywood writer-producer, Don Hartman, who had a pencil in most of the Hope-Crosby-Lamour Road pictures, once explained how their locations were selected: "You take a piece of used chewing gum and flip it at a map. Wherever it sticks, you can lay a Road...
...films to TV. The price: a handsome $50 million. Soon to visit the televiewer at home, courtesy of Management Corp. of America (and numberless sponsors), are such Paramount standouts as Going My Way, This Gun for Hire, The Lost Weekend, all the Mae West films, the Hope-Crosby-Lamour "Road" shows; and Cecil B. de Mille's Cleopatra, Unconquered and Union Pacific...
...existence-"As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; They kill us for their sport." With this image, with the back of his hand for any sense of purpose or significance in human life and in the world around it, Director Henri-Georges Clouzot (The Raven, Jenny Lamour) introduces a picture that is surely one of the most evil ever made, and yet, curiously, one that uses the approaches of religion. The Wages of Fear seeks out its epiphanies at the cold-blood level of the swamp, where the winding python rears to hiss...
...biggest names in the business took off for Europe-Clark Gable, Errol Flynn, Lana Turner, Ava Gardner, Gregory Peck -through a loophole in the tax law that forgives all if a taxpayer is out of the U.S. for 17 months out of 18. Van Johnson, Betty Hutton and Dorothy Lamour went back into vaudeville; Roz Russell and Bette Davis tried a retread on the legitimate stage; television sopped up Lucille Ball, Ann Sothern, Eve Arden and George Raft. Mike Romanoff, the royal restaurateur, made it final: "The motion picture community can no longer support...
...Manhattan's Charvet et Fils, purveyors of expensive cravats. The ties, said Grunewald. went to "high-class people." The subcommittee got a list of "club" members from Charvet et Fils, then, red-faced, decided not to make the names public. ¶In 1950 Grunewald lunched with Dorothy Lamour and her husband William Howard, along with George Schoeneman and Charles Oliphant, then top BIR men. The Howards had tax troubles, but Grunewald assured the committee that he knew nothing of them. His buddies Schoeneman and Oliphant just called him up and asked, "Would you like to come along and meet...