Word: manne
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that set records around the clock, and with each record came a mystery. Rumored seller of the Picasso: a member of the Greek Embiricos ship-owning clan. Top bidder: a Manhattan dealer named David Mann, who dashed off with his prize without even waiting to have it wrapped. New owners: still unknown at week's end. All Mann, who was pledged to secrecy, would say was that "they are a young American couple, relatively new to the art-collecting scene. I think the wife had known this painting for a long time. It was a dream of hers...
Died. Anthony Mann, 60, movie director, a onetime off-Broadway bit-player who rose to direct Broadway shows like 1936's So Proudly We Hail before going to Hollywood, where he turned out over 40 films of meticulous workmanship but uneven merit, including The Glenn Miller Story and El Cid; of a heart attack; in West Berlin...
Married. Alfred A. Knopf, 74, Manhattan book publisher (Freud, Mann, Mencken, Sartre, Updike), who in 1960 sold his firm to Random House for about $3,000,000, while remaining as board chairman; and Helen Hedrick, 64, sometime novelist (The Blood Remembers, which Knopf published in 1941); both for the second time (his first wife died last year; her husband died in 1963); in Rio de Janeiro...
Squiggly Mouth. It may look like fun, but making commercials is usually one long, exhausting series of takes and retakes. Philip Bruns recalls the horrors of struggling to twist his squiggly mouth into a satisfied grin as he munched through five quarts of Heinz Kosher Pickles. Howard Mann, a nightclub comic with a Kosher dill nose, once had to sit patiently while makeup men reworked his uneven toes, then ran up and down a steep hill 20 times to celebrate the joys of Ting foot deodorant. During practice takes for one commercial, shmoo-shaped Peter Gumeny strung a hammock between...
...Taming of the Shrew. "We intend to make Shakespeare as successful a screenwriter as Abby Mann." Thus spake Director Franco Zeffirelli last year when he began filming The Taming of the Shrew. The screen credits maintain the mock-the-bard tone: script billing goes to Zeffirelli, Paul Dehn and Suso Checchi D'Amico, with a coy acknowledgment "to William Shakespeare, without whom we would have been at a loss for words." The irreverence in this case is less a shame than a sham. Despite the disclaimer, Zeffirelli has succeeded in mounting the liveliest screen incarnation of Shakespeare since Olivier...