Word: oscarization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Vegetables on His Legs. After two years of coolly inviting his soul, Billy began to yearn again for the heat and excitement of the race. As he puts it: "I had stood still so long, I found vegetables growing up my legs." In 1943 he produced Carmen Jones-Oscar Hammerstein's all Negro version of the Bizet opera. It was a smash hit, and the first of Billy's Broadway theatrical ventures to bring him a profit. Billy then bought up the Ziegfeld Theater, which he owns and operates at a six-figure annual profit...
...much admired part of Manhattan's jagged-edged landscapes but it had raised storms of protest back in 1931. Within Harrison's ten-man team there was a basic unanimity; all ten shared his liking for strict functionalism. Among them: Brazil's brilliant young (39) Oscar Niemeyer, and France's Le Corbusier (real name, Charles Edouard Jeanneret), who invented functionalism's favorite phrase when he described modern houses as "machines for living...
...independent movie companies in the Hollywood pool, Liberty Films Inc. seemed most likely to become a big fish. It had three of Hollywood's top directors: Frank Capra (Mr.Deeds Goes to Town), a three-time Oscar winner; William Wyler, whose Best Years of Our Lives won nine Oscars last year; George Stevens (Penny Serenade) and Samuel Briskin, who was once Columbia Pictures production boss...
...excellent box-office draw was Sam Goldwyn's nine-Oscar-winning The Best Years of Our Lives. Other favorites...
saul Mariaschin dusted off his award for the most valuable basketball player in New England yesterday, the equivalent of a Hollywood Oscar for those who tread the quintet boards, prior to the trophy's first formal photographic portralt...