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...dramatic shoot-out at Black Rock brought an extraordinary denouement to one of the most convoluted, agonizing and, above all, public corporate power struggles in recent U.S. history. Wyman's departure was the climax of months of upheaval at CBS, caused in part by his efforts to elude a raft of corporate-takeover artists, ranging from North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms to Manhattan Arbitrager Ivan Boesky to Atlanta Broadcaster Ted Turner. The battle was also triggered by austerity and shrinking fortunes in the broadcast- television business, as No. 2 network CBS has struggled -- so far unsuccessfully -- to cope with losing...
...work. But Ambler remembers them: "The Mask of Dimitrios had been made cheaply in standing sets and on the Burbank lot with Warner contract players, and by that time had already been tipped as a 'sleeper' . . . I had not expected to enjoy myself --Background to Danger with George Raft had made me very queasy--but I had not expected a screen Dimitrios to give me stomach cramps. They were quite severe." At the close, he imagines an ideal novelist-turned-screenwriter. After he completes his assignment, says Ambler, he has a sense "of anti- climax, a feeling of irritation because...
...know about me without your having read a book by the name of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, but that ain't no matter. A lot of school- taught folks been talkin' about that story since Mark Twain made it up, about me and Jim floatin' on our raft down that monstrous big river, and Jim escapin' from slavery and me hiding him out. They say I did a big heroic thing in helpin' Jim get free, but that weren't it. Truth is, Jim helped me git free, 'cause if he hadn't made me realize that...
...think a whole lot better still. Americans also git into trouble by being too free of the past. They never really did feel part of the world anyway, I guess, but it's too late for hiding out now. Sometimes I can feel the whole country rockin' on the raft with Jim and me, pretendin' that there ain't no shore, and that the river flowed from nowhere...
...that I'm down on Americans, you understand. They're mostly good and almost normal once you git to know 'em. I'm never too down on Americans or too up. This ole raft of ours has covered a heap of territory since that Mississippi ride, and I seen too many changes, too many wars, to feel much like flag wavin' or flag burnin'. One thing I come to know is that bein' alone makes you 'preciate the help of others when you need them, and makes you 'preciate the lonesomeness of others too, when they need you. Maybe Americans...