Word: perfectionistic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Still, going into the locker room at halftime with a handsome 42-25 margin, Sanders was not satisfied. True to the character of the Celtic perfectionist, Sanders immediately lambasted his players' sloppy positioning on rebounds. "Nobody was blocking out and balls were being knocked out of their hands," he said. And balls knocked out of hands mean fewer baskets. The compulsive, competitive spirit of Boston Garden lives...
...work, Falk is an obsessive perfectionist, "a tenacious worker capable of wanting to repeat a take 200 times to get it right," says Ben Gazzara. That tenacity led to some bitter arguments with Levinson and Link in the beginning, but when the writer team reminded Falk of those blowups recently, he protested. "Those were just getting-acquainted fights." In private, Falk is noticeably more even-tempered. "Nothing really touches his equanimity," says Lee Grant. "You could explode a bomb next to him, and he would just look at it with extreme interest." His wife describes...
Screenwriter-Novelist Gavin Lambert tells this short history of Gone With the Wind in a level, intelligent prose that contrasts nicely with his extravagant subject. He concentrates upon Selznick, an obsessive perfectionist who brought off the film in spite of the collective industry opinion that regarded it as "Selznick's Folly." Sometimes his conferences would last 48 hours, nonstop. He went through four directors and scriptwriters like F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ben Hecht. When the Screen Extras Guild produced only 1,500 bodies to represent the Confederate wounded at the Atlanta Railroad Station, Selznick violated union rules by ordering...
...results of her first directorial venture were not all that Perfectionist Callas might have wished, she nevertheless had proved to be a sensitive director. From the first rehearsal it was apparent that she had mellowed considerably since her stormy singing days...
...paparazzi by wearing a wide variety of wigs and stuffing her cheeks with prune pits. "After a while I changed the pits for two buttons," she adds. "My mouth was getting sore." The purpose of all this was to take photographs for a picture book called Italia Mia. A perfectionist, she says she made 2,628 shots of Venice before she picked the three she wanted. All in all, the effort has worn out two cameras and one car, but "with photographs I can say what I want...