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...last film, Salon Kitty, a spy thriller set in a Nazi brothel. Brass, a Falstaffian figure with a temper as big as his waistline, soon decided that Vidal's script was too bourgeois for his taste. "It was the work of an aging arteriosclerotic," he says. "Vidal redid it five times, but it was still absurd." With the help of McDowell, Brass rewrote the screenplay...
SUNDAY: The Ten Commandments. DeMille's 1923 version of Moses' deliverance of the children of Israel apparently didn't satisfy him. The inimitable Cecil B. redid his epic in 1956 with 25,000 extras and the parting of the Red Sea and won a special effects Oscar. Shown for the first time on television, in its entirety. CH. 5. 8 p.m. Color...
...August 1967 a call came from London. A man persistently referring to himself as "Big Al" Brodax wanted Segal to doctor the shooting script of some animated film with the Beatles. "There were about 120 pages of Yellow Submarine of which 119 were unusable. So I redid the whole thing...
...stories about David Lean's painstaking efforts to make his postcard flawless are true: he did keep his crew waiting three days on a beach until an angry-enough looking wave rolled in. They reveal his incompetence, however, more than his megalomania. Lean redid a month's shooting at $28,000 a day because Robert Mitchum's costume was "too little Lord Fauntleroy"-a point Mitchum had made before shooting began. And consider the product of all Lean's care. Its romanticism is so retarded as to give the heroine a white mare and her lover a black stallion...
...Because a Senate-House conference committee redid what the House had undone, Nixon is getting a housing bill providing broad executive powers to finance new communities and revitalize old ones. He is known to oppose those provisions of the bill...