Word: oscars
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DIED. Richard Rodgers, 77, composer whose collaborations with Lyricists Lorenz Hart, Oscar Hammerstein II and others roused Broadway with The Sound of Music, Carousel, Pal Joey and three dozen other shows for six decades; in New York City (see MUSIC...
...write a tune than to bend over and tie my shoelaces," Richard Rodgers once remarked. Many composers would have been happy to tie Rodgers' shoes for him if only they had been able to fill them. He could write anything, and to order and to suit. When Oscar Hammerstein II handed him the lyric for Bali Ha'i, Rodgers studied it for a moment, then turned the typed page over, retired to the next room and five minutes later came back with the completed melody, one of his most haunting...
...wasn't mentally prepared for, or Neil Simon, whom you wish had never dramatized these recent events from his life. The plot, no matter how true, still produces one of Simon's most uninteresting relationships. And we've come to expect quite a bit from the creator of Oscar and Felix, and, more recently, the wonderful role of Elliot Garfield in The Goodbye Girl...
...salary. Warner's Wunderkind brought dialogue to feature films (The Jazz Singer, 1927) and pioneered such realistic genres as the gangster and "working gal" films. In 1933 Zanuck and United Artists Head Joseph M. Schenck formed 20th Century Pictures, which soon merged with Fox Films. He produced such Oscar-winners as The Grapes of Wrath and All About Eve and copped three coveted Thalberg Awards. After converting the studio to the wide-screen Cinemascope, Zanuck left Fox in 1956 for a spree of mediocre film making. He returned as president in 1962 to reverse Fox's declining fortunes...