Word: niven
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Service get the impression that author and friends were purporting to conduct a professional writers' workshop, Buckley notes that the lockers contained a variety of entertainments and diversions. Among them: a cassette library of movies, including The Wackiest Ship in the Army and The Caine Mutiny, tapes of David Niven reading his memoirs (The Moon's a Balloon; Bring On the Empty Horses), and a model of the Titanic that for some unexplained reason was glued together on deck during a heavy rainstorm. Such behavior might be attributed to the decision to pack 50 cases of beer and 32 cases...
...dance naked for me to Hawaiian music." Said the wife of Director Henry Hathaway: "I have nothing good to say about Grace . . . She had an affair with my best friend's husband, Ray Milland. And all the time wearing those white gloves!" And when Prince Rainier asked David Niven who his favorite Hollywood conquest was, Niven answered, "Grace...
Commonly known as Lou Gehrig's disease, after the brilliant New York Yankee first baseman whose career and life it cut short, ALS is generally fatal. Among its better-known victims: Actor David Niven and former New York Senator Jacob Javits. Though the cause remains elusive, doctors suspect that genetic susceptibility sometimes plays a role: 5% to 10% of ALS patients have a family history of the disorder. Some researchers consider it to be an autoimmune disease, in which the victim's immune system assaults his own body tissue...
Though born in New York, Mark Niven spends his childhood being dragged through Europe while his father pursues acting jobs onstage or in Hollywood budget productions being filmed abroad. Ultimately, the alternation between poverty and short bursts of solvency proves too much for his parents' marriage. When they tell Mark, at age 14, that they are divorcing, he grieves, blames the world for blighting their happiness and reaches a decision: "People are monsters and I'd better get rich or I'll have to depend on monsters." After reading a book on sunken treasures, Mark becomes obsessed with finding...
From this point on, Vizinczey's entertaining display of granted wishes takes a peculiar turn. He writes: "Perhaps nothing about Mark Niven's life is of such general significance as the way he lost his fortune." The ominous shadow of a moral descends over the proceedings. Mark must contend with a confiscatory Bahamian government, which demands half of his take before he even recovers it. Then other sharks start circling: an unscrupulous Manhattan art dealer named John Vallantine, who decides to relieve Mark of his remaining $150 million, and corrupt lawyers in the U.S. who gather to pick...