Word: pipers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from the anguished days of Some Like It Hot: "It used to be you'd call her at 9 a.m., she'd show up at noon. Now you call her in May - she shows up in October. We should be able to kick out an actress, have Piper Laurie warming up, and get on with it." Hollywood has offset the vampirous at tacks of its stars by profiting heavily from overseas production, closing down local studios, and cutting back on film schedules. Rome, London and Tokyo now lead Hollywood as film-making centers...
...books), bathroom scales (2½ books), wall-mounted can openers (1½ books). But for the truly ambitious saver, the premium catalogues offer Chevrolet Corvairs (700 books, which a family spending 20% of a $12,000 income with stamp-giving retailers could probably amass in 35 years) and even Piper Deluxe Caribbean airplanes (3,000 books, or $360,000 worth of groceries...
...tell you," he says, "there was a lot of foot-draggin' on the way. I kept wonderin' out loud if we weren't goin' the wrong way. if we oughtn't to turn around. But we went up. finally, in a yellow, two-seat Piper Cub. The pilot kept me up there for half an hour, lettin' me take the stick and whip us through a few turns and glides. After that first ride, there wasn't any doubt what I was goin...
Hollywood prejudice is unlikely to break down all the way in one year, so the odds are that the winner will be one of the other four nominees-Audrey Hepburn (Breakfast at Tiffany's), Piper Laurie (The Hustler), Geraldine Page (Summer and Smoke) or Natalie Wood (Splendor in the Grass). Sophia's work in Two Women is more than comparable to any in that list, and she is going to fly 6,000 miles on the chance that Hollywood has the courage to agree. "Imagine," she says, "if an Italian girl gets an Oscar for an Italian picture...
...Giovanni de Simone became Johnny Desmond. Among Jews, Izzy Itskowitz probably needed to sandpaper that a bit; yet he stayed with a Jewish name: Eddie Cantor. But most-from Jerry Levitch (Jerry Lewis) to Nathan Birnbaum (George Burns), Emanuel Goldenberg (Edward G. Robinson), Pauline Levy (Paulette Goddard), Rosetta Jacobs (Piper Laurie), and Melvin Hesselberg (Melvyn Douglas)-have preferred the Anglo-Saxon angle...