Word: raying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shot put. Army's Al Gimian scored a 48 ft., 3 1/2 in. heave on his final try to nip Harvard's Ray Frieden by 3/4 in. for second place and a crucial three points. Crimson junior Art Crossdale had taken first place in the event with a 53 ft., 7 1/2 in. put. But such misfortunes don't make the Army win a fluke. The Harvard athletes had their moments...
...cover portrait in three sittings, while "interior decorators were coming in by the droves." More or less at the same time, she also managed to run through scenes from the show for Photographer Ormond Gigli, whose color shots accompany our story, and to rove the town with Reporter Ray Kennedy, shopping for antiques, shoes or Fudgsicles. Says Kennedy: "I felt as if I were on a teen-age date...
...Producer Ray Stark was feeling his way and burning his fingers on almost everything he touched. A fabulously successful film producer (Seven Arts Productions), he had never before done a Broadway show. Furthermore his wife Frances is the daughter of Fanny Brice and Nicky Arnstein. So there were book problems right away. The actual Nicky was considered unacceptable as a leading man. He was a shiftless con man with a column of mercury for a spine, a criminal record, and a cavalier attitude toward Fanny's devotion and fidelity...
...Sounds. While Ray Stark was worrying about these things, Funny Girl opened in Boston and bombed. Writer Isobel Lennart began rewriting, Composer Jule Styne wrote twice as many songs as were finally used, and on the road $30,000 worth of sets were thrown away. Isobel Lennart wrote 42 versions of the last scene alone. The cost of the show eventually climbed beyond $600,000. The date of its New York opening was changed four times. Five weeks before the New York opening, Garson Kanin was no longer directing, and Jerome Robbins...
Barbra, suffering from a few personal poltergeists herself, slips easily into the psychoanalytic ambiance of modern times. "I think sensory," she says. "I don't have any trouble turning myself on or off. I just hate to become too intellectual. I always tell Elliott, talk to me sensory." Ray Stark, with an exhausted expression, says that "she'll drive you bats with too much analysis. It's not arrogance, but doubt. She is like a barracuda. She devours every piece of intelligence to the bone." One of her actor friends says that "she is like a filter...