Word: nickelodeon
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...steamy account of the King's stormy third marriage, will open early this year. So will W.C. Fields and Me, starring Rod Steiger. Mel Brooks is making a silent comedy, while Peter Bogdanovich is about to start work on a talkie set in the silent era called Nickelodeon. Ken Russell, fresh from destroying Liszt, will now have a go at Valentino, casting Rudolf Nureyev as the screen's greatest lover. Recently, Elia Kazan started to film F. Scott Fitzgerald's own Hollywood novel, The Last Tycoon. Even now, a large German shepherd called Gus is barking...
Died. Spyros P. Skouras, 78, longtime cinema mogul; of a heart attack; in Rye, N.Y. A Greek immigrant 61 years ago, Skouras started his American career as a hotel busboy. He and two brothers bought into a nickelodeon in 1914, then built their $4,000 investment into a chain of moneymaking movie palaces. Skouras also took over the Fox Metropolitan theater group, rescued it from bankruptcy and wound up in 1942 as head of the entire 20th Century-Fox empire. He pioneered revolutionary techniques like CinemaScope and presided over the production of dozens of screen classics, including The Robe...
...great American nickelodeon," Will Rogers called the Post. During the early decades of the century, it brought humor, sentiment, pragmatic soothsaying and a touch of romance into millions of households. In smaller towns, especially, it was the prime medium of family entertainment. But it was more. In its pages, readers saw reflections of themselves-or, at least, reflections of what they liked to think of themselves. The Post's greatest editor, George Horace Lorimer, insisted that "editors must be ordinary men"; and it was the values of ordinary men-cozy domesticity, a sense of humor, a belief in decency...
...financial boss of the company until 1956; of cerebral hemorrhage; in Miami Beach, Fla. "Pictures," said Abe to his brothers one day, "ought to be a pretty good business to be in." So in New Castle, Pa., in 1906, the sons of a Polish immigrant butcher bought themselves a nickelodeon theater and by 1917 were cranking out their own silent films, soon moved to New York and then to Hollywood, where the saga went on until 1956, when they sold their controlling interests in Warner Bros, for $22 million...
...relief by Sculptor James Earle Fraser, has suffered little depreciation. Chief Big Tree has so much mettle, in fact, that he traveled down from his home near Syracuse, N.Y., to help the Chase Manhattan Bank observe the 100th anniversary of the first U.S. nickel. The celebration featured a nickelodeon, a cigar-store Indian and a carrousel buffalo. Alas, the original beast on the nickel's flip side was turned into a robe...