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...Otto Friedrich -- pianist, historian, adventurer, rose gardener and passionate journalist -- was above all a man who had to write. In addition to his prodigious work during two decades as a writer and editor at TIME, Otto wrote 14 books on subjects ranging from Berlin in the 1920s to Hollywood in the 1940s to the End of the World-to say nothing of the nine children's books he co-authored with his wife Priscilla, with whom he had five children of his own. When Otto died of cancer last week at age 66, he had just completed a monumental study...
Dunne and his wife, writer Joan Didion, have moved to Manhattan, but they lived in Southern California for years, wrote screenplays off and on and knew everyone in the movie business. The list of acknowledgments at the end of Playland names Otto Preminger, Natalie Wood, Billy Wilder and a cast of thousands. This explains part of the problem. What is supposed to be a novel is really the author's Hollywood valedictory, and he has included every good show-biz anecdote he ever heard. Unfortunately, the glut of marvelous gossip has stopped his story cold...
John Y. Campbell, a renowned expert in finance and macroeconomics, has accepted tenure as the Otto Eckstein Professor of Applied Economics...
Laura directed by Otto Preminger at the Coolidge Corner Theater February...
...Coolidge Corner Theater's management. The Theater's screening of "Laura" on Valentine's Day performs a double service. Those in love will find ecstatic inspiration, and those loveless unfortunates will leave the theater condemned to pine for Gene Tierney for eternity. Celebrating its fiftieth anniversary this year, Otto Preminger's classic film noir is the quintessential love story...