Word: mason
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hollywood first sought the movie rights to his Lolita in 1958. But one evening he dreamed that he was reading the screenplay; overnight, Nabokov came to the age of consent. An offer of $150,000 did not exactly dissuade him, and he agreed to do the script himself. James Mason was cast as obsessive old Humbert Humbert, with Sue Lyon, then 14, in the title role of the stepdaughter who seduced him. Everybody said the adaptation could not be done, and they were right. But the pallid, bowdlerized film did gross about 21 times its $1,900,000 cost...
...what about a cast? Producer Twain thought, rightly (after the film), that James Mason was wrong for Humbert. Richard Burton was an early choice, but after one musical (Lerner's Camelof), Burton decided: "I have no desire to repeat this fascinating but exacting experiment." In his place will go John Neville, 45, a first-rank British actor. "When I was first approached," he admits, "my feeling was that I didn't see how it could be done with taste...
...president of Rutgers University, Mason W. Gross, said yesterday that an increasing number of bomb threats could "bring the university to a stand-still...
...children here have such beautiful names, like Rutha Mae Mason and Vincent Lee Mendenhall. Most of come from large families of about six to ten children, sometimes 14. They live in shacks out in the fields. Many of them have infected navels and scars on their skin from cuts that did not heal well due to malnutrition. One of the reasons that so many of them have trouble learning is that their brains have not gotten the proper nutrients, perhaps at some critical period in their biological development-not to speak of the obvious detrimental factors of their home...
...myth that the DAS is managed by a willful group of pretaped pre-programmed agents of the status quo, committed to extending the hegemony of the United States to the four corners of the earth. It won't work because it uses the guil?by-association technique-Sukarno-Mason-Suharto-Papanek-PKI-Vernon-Widjojo-in a community that is largely immune to that shabby approach. It won't work, most of all, because there isn't anything mysterious about the DAS. The DAS is doing exactly what it says it is doing. It is advising governments, as best...