Word: levant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mantan Moreland, Stepin Fetchit, Willie Best) pop their eyes at every corpse. But bad as the films were, they were also an undergraduate school through which passed some able and attractive players, among them Rita Hayworth, Ray Milland and William Holden. For Charlie Chan at the Opera (1936), Oscar Levant actually composed an original opera...
...Memoirs of an Amnesiac Levant...
...Intern, Doctor X (3) 3. A Gift of Prophecy, Montgomery (6) 4. Is Paris Burning? Collins and Lapierre (2) 5. Markings, Hammarskjöld (5) 6. Games People Play, Berne (4) 7. The Oxford History of the American People, Morison (7) 8. The Memoirs of an Amnesiac, Levant (8) 9. Sixpence in Her Shoe, McGinley (9) 10. Report to Greco, Kazantzakis...
...Memoirs of an Amnesiac, Levant...
...Levant the wit hurls poisoned shafts. Proposing a movie based on his own life, he casts Rosalind Russell in the title role, then decides she is too masculine. Leonard Bernstein "uses music as an accompaniment to his conducting." Oscar also punctures himself. "I'm a neurotic basket case," he says early in the book. "My health is so bad that I may well be the next Premier of India." With the approach of old age-Levant will be 59 this year-the wit yields to the neurotic basket case. The reader is endlessly treated to clinical accounts, some written...