Word: oscars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...board rooms of the great Midwestern corporations and in the private clubs where businessmen gather, Nixon is perceived not so much as a wicked man as an inept one. "Had he had a firm grip on what was done on his behalf, Watergate would never have happened," says Oscar Blomgren, president of Tuxco Manufacturing Corp. in North Chicago...
Financial Oscar. Under Aubrey, MGM churned out profitable, medium-budget schlock like Skyjacked and Black Belly of the Tarantula; directors often charged him with philistine meddling, and he alienated many of them. Meanwhile, as Kerkorian's agent of austerity, Aubrey slashed employment from 6,200 to 1,200 and recently began shifting film production from the silver screen to network television series. Aubrey also sold off MGM properties including its record division, studio real estate, theaters-even Ben-Hur's chariot at a much-publicized prop auction. In September he announced that MGM would withdraw from the film...
...ketchup to cosmetics, acquired Halston's business, his services as a designer and, most valuable of all, his name. Halston will now be free from the pressures of merchandising his wares and more able to exercise the fashion touch that has won him two Coty Awards (the fashion Oscar) and a clientele that includes Barbra Streisand, Mrs. Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis...
...Bridges' credit, he had the judgement to cast and the stamina to convince John Houseman to play the haughty Kingsfield. The performance is excellent--laced with enough memorable lines (he's the only character who has any) and convincing glares to win an Oscar. Houseman, who is 71, has appeared in only one other film. He is better known as a producer (The Bad and the Beautiful, Lust for Life) and the co-founder (with Orson Welles) of The Mercury Theatre...
BAKER LIBRARY, Ship of Fools, directed by Stanley Kramer, starring Vivien Leigh, Oscar Werner, Lee Marvin, Simone Signoret...