Word: making
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...paid much attention. Jean Hersholt, retiring as president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, told the audience: "There have been voices in the industry raised against the academy. [They] say . . . 'We don't want academy standards foisted upon us. We want to make commercial pictures unhampered by considerations of artistic excellence...
...just orating. Last week he announced that the major studios, prodded by their New York headquarters, were withdrawing their financial support from the Oscar derby, one of Hollywood's best publicity-getters since 1928. Said Hersholt: "They say it wouldn't take so long to make a movie if the actors, directors, writers and technicians weren't so concerned with making it artistic and winning awards." Even this year's Oscars, Hersholt conceded, were not supported by three companies-Columbia, Republic and Universal-International (which released the top prizewinner, the British-made Hamlet...
...mayor, Walker soon reduced his onerous new job to an easygoing system. "Walker would rise about 10 o'clock and glance at the headlines," writes Fowler. "After three or four minutes with the big type, Walker . . . would . . . retire again . . . With pillows propped behind his back, he would make telephone calls, and . . . re-examine the newspaper headlines." Around noon he would dress and go out. He got a lot of mail, but, says Fowler, ,he "seldom read any of the thousands of letters sent to him over the years . . . seldom replied to those he did chance to read ..." Most...
...Carr, who works for an undertaker, has eloped with his employer's daughter and settled down in Manhattan to write. The Road is a wearisome recital of Bernard's troubles with publishers, poverty, his wife's unwelcome pregnancy and the everlasting pressure from Communist pals to make Bernard give up his creative independence and write party-line tracts. Farrell's handling of this overworked material is inept to the point of being ludicrous. Since Author Farrell seldom settles for less than a trilogy, Bernard Carr is almost bound to show up at least once more...
When Lisa was hauled in as a prostitute by the Rome police, Robert was stunned but inclined to self-justification. "I didn't make the war," he told Lisa. "I didn't make the police." Only after Lisa came back, carrying the yellow police card and screaming at him, "Go home! Take your tanks, take your money, take the coffee and the sugar . . . and go home!" did Robert begin to understand that he had debased a human being. He decided to make it up to her by promising to bring 'her to America...