Word: producerdirector
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Divorced. By Lee Remick, 33, whose brilliant blue eyes and dazzling smile have lighted movie screens since 1957 (Days of Wine and Roses, The Detective); Bill Colleran, fortyish, TV producerdirector; on uncontested grounds of incompatibility after eleven years of marriage; in November in Juarez, Mexico...
With nothing to do, he did everything: TV, movies, summer stock, revues, nightclubs. He landed the lead as a replacement in two Broadway shows (Stop the World, Half a Sixpence), but he was still a crucial step away from the ideal niche. When ProducerDirector Harold Prince came after him for Cabaret, he succumbed instantly. "Everyone thought it was a very chancy show," he says, "but I knew I wanted to take the gamble. The tawdriness and decadence of cafe life is something I know...
...were rejected as "not of festival caliber." Then it turned out last week that the selectors had tried to get one Hollywood picture, The Fortune Cookie (with Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau), only to be turned down by the distributor, United Artists. That prompted Cookie's producerdirector, Billy Wilder, to suggest that United Artists was "scared of the snobbish, intellectual types of audiences and critics" in New York. "After all," he quipped, "my picture was not made in Czechoslovakia...
Died. Robert Rossen, 57, Hollywood producerdirector, a onetime boxer from Manhattan's Lower East Side who, after some years as a Warner Bros, scriptwriter, turned to making his own movies "about things I knew as a kid," such as Body and Soul, 1949's Oscar-winning All the King's Men and The Hustler; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
NOBODY LOVES AN ALBATROSS. As a fast-talking TV producerdirector, Robert Preston gives a sly, light touch to a play full of caustic mass-media mockery...