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...hours' worth of color footage to be cut down to the final 3 hrs. 17 mins. To Lean, who made his reputation in the mid-'30s as a film editor, cutting is the ultimate art and his all-engrossing love. He moved into the stucco cottage on Metro's Culver City lot, formerly a schoolhouse for Child Stars Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland and Liz Taylor, and began the ordeal that for the past ten weeks has kept him in the cutting room until 2, 3 and, over last weekend, until...
Repeatedly he has trudged to the nearby sound studio. There French Composer Maurice Jarre, an Oscar-winner for his Lawrence background music, was conducting his 104-man symphony orchestra to synchronize with the Zhivago images flickering on the big overhead screen. In Metro's screening theater, Lean has slumped, listening to the mix of 20 different soundtracks being blended into the four final ones, occasionally growling criticisms, such as "There's no sound of it snowing" or "That baby's crying is too loud." Not until noon this Monday, when he falls aboard the plane...
Eventually, Jacques learns that he can see through things as though they do not exist. He can make people disappear at will; he walks raptly through the daylit Paris streets and the roaring Metro without seeing a soul. Time loses its meaning; he comes home one evening to discover to his mild surprise that he has been away for three whole days...
Paris traffic being what it is, Correspondent Judson Gooding found the bicycle the best bet for skimming to and from interviews, far speedier than taxis or the Metro. One of his colleagues had to resort to a more elaborate approach. Since the press was not welcome at the funeral of Porfirio Rubirosa, the Paris Bureau's Robert Smith dressed in black, hired a black-capped chauffeur and a black limousine and set out to cover the story. He had no trouble. Naturally the most varied and militant types of transport were put to use by our Saigon Bureau staffers...
...David's $300-a-week allowance and hopes for Yale. With his elder brother Myron, David staked himself for a trip to Hollywood by turning out two quickies that netted $16,000. Once there, David sold himself as a $100-a-week script reader at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, within months was an associate producer at triple the salary; Myron launched into a career as an agent, which in time landed him on the top of the heap...