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...success depends on sheer exuberance and tenacity, he has a better than even chance. The son of a schoolteacher-turned-banker from the southwestern region of Correze, Chirac ran away from home at 17 and spent several months in the merchant marine. When he was 20, he studied at Harvard summer school, washed dishes at a Howard Johnson's in Boston, and became engaged (briefly) to a girl from South Carolina who had a white Cadillac convertible and called him "honey chile." He retains a strong affection for America and is in fact an American junk-food addict. "When...
Freedom is exhilarating, and the movie business is intoxicating. Another whiskey merchant, Joseph P. Kennedy, thought so in 1928 when he briefly took over Patha pictures. Back then, Jules Stein, MCA's founder, was booking singers into speakeasies; and Sam Bronfman, the new owner of Seagram, was bootlegging spirits across the Canadian border into Prohibition-era America. Wall Street is hoping that for Seagram's sake, Sam's grandson Edgar Jr. does not forget the first rule of a speakeasy: the bartender is supposed to stay sober...
Jefferson in Paris brings this bit of vulgar wisdom back to mind. Regrettably so, for it is the work of that redoubtable trio consisting of producer Ismail Merchant, director James Ivory and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. With films like Howards End and Remains of the Day, they have, almost alone, kept alive what in Cohn's day was one of Hollywood's more agreeable genres: the handsomely made, well-acted literary-historical drama. These movies reflected the cultural aspirations of producers like Irving Thalberg and David O. Selznick while serving the needs of that portion of the audience not enamored...
...Merchant also fondly recalled his ownconnection to Harvard...
...debt to Derek Bok will bring me here freeof cost," said Merchant joking...