Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hollywood, Tony looks fine. His latest picture: Paramount's The Tin Star. Waiting to be released are three other films he cranked out for Paramount this year-The Matchmaker, with Shirley Booth, Desire Under the Elms, with Sophia Loren, and This Bitter Earth, with Jo Van Fleet. Two earlier Perkins films are still packing them in: Fear Strikes Out, the story of Red Sox Outfielder Jimmy Piersall, and Friendly Persuasion, made with his good friend and sometime mentor, Gary Cooper...
...contract for Look Homeward, Angel will allow him to leave the show next June if he wants to. If Perkins decides to quit, he will not lack for employment. One likely job: playing Gene in a Paramount production of the Wolfe novel. Another possibility: bringing to life the bewildered young romantics in the early books of F. Scott Fitzgerald...
While these good results may be paramount to the psychologist looking on the discipline prescribed in The Cloud as a kind of do-it-yourself therapy, they are mere byproducts to the true mystic, for whom union with God is the only aim. "If you desire to have this aim concentrated and expressed in one word," said the author of The Cloud, "take but one short word of a single syllable . . . The word GOD or the word LOVE . . . This word shall be your shield and your spear, whether you ride in peace or in war. With this word you shall...
...Everything will be all right in a generation." Her husband agrees: "Life is not complete if one is to leave one's wife behind in a veil." In Malaya the Sultan of Pahang was ruled out of the running to be the new nation's first Paramount Ruler because of his marital didoes (TIME. Aug. 12), and across the Strait of Malacca, when Indonesia's President Sukarno took a third wife, he touched off vehement, widely publicized feminist demonstrations. In the more cosmopolitan Moslem cities such as Rabat, Cairo, Beirut, Istanbul and Karachi, unveiled women have long...
Short Cut to Hell (Paramount). He, mechanically: "I'm not a person. I'm a gun . . . It's my trade. My profession. I shoot people." She, tenderly: "There's so much more to you than you'll admit. 1 know it ... Your hands . . . they could be the hands of an artist...