Word: mirisches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mountain labored to bring it forth. Producer Walter Mirisch, having paid James Michener $600,000 for the screen rights to a 937-page bestseller that has SOLD 4,000,000 copies, backed his investment with a wad that less than a century ago would have bought the island the picture is named after. For $14,000,000 he got Panavision, Color by Deluxe, top-chop talent (Julie Andrews, Max von Sydow, Richard Harris), two shrewd scripters (Dalton Trumbo and Daniel Taradash), and a director (George Roy Hill) whose dependability is warm milk to any producer's ulcer...
...said Producer Harold Mirisch when she sat down in his office and suggested that he take $5,000 worth of tickets. An hour later, the story goes, he had not only bought the tickets but called his broker and ordered him to buy all the Times Mirror stock he could lay his hands...
...Dinner. Where was everybody? A lot of them were in Bel Air at the home of Producer Harold Mirisch, who chose this particular Monday night to throw a party. Mirisch and his spangled crowd-150 people on the level of Billy Wilder, Gene Kelly, Dean Martin, Louis Jourdan-watched the show on ten TV sets while eating a catered dinner...
...that way because it is out to say that something is in. Yet nothing is in-er than a dinner on the Bel Air circuit. Careers are made or snuffed there-at Saturday-night after-dinner screenings in the Bel Air homes of new power centers like Producers Harold Mirisch and Ray Stark, or old Hollywood truebloods like Bill Goetz, son-in-law of Louis B. Mayer...
...Mirisch's, a Matisse swings out from the wall, a screen drops from the ceiling, and people like the Fred Zinnemans, the William Wylers, the Billy Wilders, and William Holden settle back to judge a new picture or star whose fate may be seared with a wisecrack...