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...self-respecting picturemaker would ever want to work for your company," Old Friend Billy Wilder wired. "The sooner the bulldozers raze your studio, the better it will be for the industry." Elizabeth Taylor, ailing in Paris with a throat infection, managed to whisper "disgraceful, degrading, particularly humiliating. Mr. Mankiewicz took over when
...summer, President Darryl F. Zanuck had been holed up in his Manhattan bunker, coldly sniping at Cleopatra. Then, armed with the excellent argument that any unfinished movie that has cost its studio $35 million must be a scandal, Zanuck moved into Paris for close combat with Writer-Director Joseph Mankiewicz. Last week the generalissimo took careful aim, picked Mankiewicz off, and flew home with Cleopatra under his arm. Having made a career of making others dance to his martial music, he was scarcely prepared for the rebellion that followed...
...Does Joe Mankiewicz seriously expect people to believe that a creature like that would be capable of dispatching so formidable an object as Elizabeth Taylor...
...make a virtue of the peccadilloes of its irreplaceable star. Where Fox President Spyros Skouras last month jetted to Rome in a frantic effort to suppress Liz's infatuation for Burton, the studio now turned resignedly wry. Joining in the tastelessness, Cleopatra Director Joseph Mankiewicz, himself an often-reported Liz diversion, deadpanned: "The real truth is that I am in love with Burton and Miss Taylor is the cover-up for us." Fox flacks, who before the divorce announcement were dispensing nothing but tender claptrap about the enduring bond between Liz and Fisher, were finally displaying more characteristic cinemettle...
...whisked her off to Grossinger's in 1958. Burton, according to gossip, has made more than his mark as Antony. Taylor, according to gossip, is merely using the Burton rumors to shield the real truth: that she is mad, mad, mad for her personable director, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 53, who, however, is very busy shooting all day and scripting all night...