Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Liberia had laid out the red carpet. Nixon was appointed honorary paramount chief of all the Liberian tribes (permitting him, if he should ever decide to retire to Liberia, to marry as many wives as he can support). Handshaking and waving his way through crowded village and city streets, he got a handsome welcome from President William V. S. Tubman, who reflected his country's devotion to the U.S. with dinners, gifts (carved ivory box, solid gold watch chain) and words ("Our strongest, closest and most reliable friend"). On behalf of a friendly...
Died. B. P. (for Benjamin Percival) Schulberg, 65, oldtime film producer (Wings), first Academy Award winner, sometime Paramount Pictures executive credited with introducing Marlene Dietrich and Shirley Temple, father of Novelist Budd (What Makes Sammy Run) Schulberg; of a stroke; at his home on Key Biscayne...
Three Violent People (Paramount), a frazzled old carpetbag about a Confederate veteran fighting off a Yankee land-grabber, makes one (and only one) original contribution: Tom Tryon, a 31-year-old bit-part boy from Broadway who, in his first good screen part as the one-armed brother of the hero (Charlton Heston), displays what one publicist has described as "175 pounds of dreamy meat." The boy is a skillful actor. At one point he even manages to steal a scene from Heroine Anne Baxter, who is probably the most relentless camera-hugger in the business...
...Hollywood or Bust (Hal Wallis; Paramount) might be called a redundant pun. Like most Dean Martin-Jerry Lewis productions, the movie is a package job. It tidily wraps up some songs (by Dean), a few gags (by Jerry), a couple of dozen long-stemmed American beauties (in shorts), a lot of scenery (in VistaVision), and Anita Ekberg (in decolletage). The opportunity to display all these items begins when Jerry, an idiotic movie fan, sets out for Hollywood with Dean to meet Anita, the movie queen of his dreams. Stopping off in Las Vegas, Jerry gets his lucky feeling, parlays...
...squad were kept on the run (107 times last week alone) to such public landmarks as Madison Square Garden, Grand Central Terminal, Yankee Stadium, the new Coliseum and the Empire State Building, sometimes came up with a firecracker or an empty piece of pipe, and only once (at the Paramount) with the real goods. Said one weary cop: "This city has plenty of wacks with a screwball sense of humor...