Word: manhattans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Peter Yates, the British director who began filming John & Mary in Manhattan last week, calls it a "contemporary love story." It begins where romantic movies used to end?with the snuggling in the percales. After that, the script lightly flicks such switched-on subjects as astrology, hippies, fags, the Pill, Jean-Luc Godard's Weekend, May-September adultery, cinéma vérité film makers and, just for laughs, itself. From time to time, for example, it underlines the dialogue with subtitles...
...truth. Mia Farrow has been cowering from show-business success like a cornered rabbit. Hoffman has been swimming backward in it like a lobster. To Mia, life is colored with pastels and studded with magic stones; to Hoffman, it is a black-and-white documentary. She can skip down Manhattan's Third Avenue without creating a ripple. When Hoffman is recognized, he becomes a fifth Beatle; every night outside his dressing room is a hard day's night. Girls choke up and babble when he walks by: "Oh my God, it's him . . . What a groove, look at that nose...
Died. Mark Shaw, 47, freelance photographer and former contributor to LIFE, who became President Kennedy's unofficial cameraman in 1960 and shortly after the assassination published The John F. Kennedys-A Family Alburn, which sold more than 200,000 copies; of heart disease; in Manhattan...
...Just 17 ft. shorter than Manhattan's Empire State Building, it could go no higher because of local zoning laws and Federal Aviation Agency restrictions...
...rather unusual for a company to declare a $55-per-share dividend. When the payout is voted by a board filled with newcomers from another company that has just acquired control, eyebrows go up all around. Last week they were raised when Manhattan-based Great American Insurance Co. decided to dip into its $300 million surplus to distribute a total of about $171 million in securities. Reason: National General Corp., a Los Angeles-based moviemaker and would-be conglomerate, recently picked up 75% control of Great American Holding Corp., the fire and casualty insurance firm's parent holding company...