Word: roles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...industry oriented toward production for national use. All through these years, Sampson ignores conventional history and economics, merely tracing the nefarious activities of a handful of peddlers. Sampson does not say what a Messerschmidt can do to an Ethiopian tribesman, nor does he fully examine the Krupp family's role in the Nazi war machine. He is more concerned with the individuals and the extent of their business activities...
...mother were trapped there by the outbreak of World War II. In 1949 she married Giovanni Battista Meneghini, an Italian construction tycoon twice her age. Meneghini sold his business, put Maria on her famous diet and became her manager. He showered her with clusters of jewelry for each new role she sang. But at the Metropolitan Opera, he insisted on receiving her salary in cash before each night's performance. This so enraged Met General Manager Rudolf Bing that he paid in five-dollar bills, "to make a wad uncomfortably large for him to carry...
Remember Keaton in the Godfather movies? Not likely. She was invisible in The Godfather and pallid in The Godfather, Part II. She played Al Pacino's wife, and her role amounted to telling Pacino every now and then to stop killing people so often and spend some time with the kids. Says Keaton: "Pacino was great. Robert De Niro was great. I was background music...
...apartments, studying a new Woody Allen script. The film has no title yet, but rehearsals begin next week. Allen himself will direct the picture, but not act in it. He reports with much satisfaction that the film is very gloomy, in no sense a comedy, and that Keaton's role is "far more heavy and tortured and difficult than the girl in Goodbar." He's worried about the film, she's insecure, they're happy. A dark night of the soul lies ahead, and what's more, room service is closed...
...again. She worries that she hasn't earned her success." Keaton is going to cut her first record in a few months, and, Allen predicts, "she will have no problem whatsoever performing. But she worries that she is not an interesting singer. Now she is worried about her role in my new film and worried that when she is older she will be one of those actresses who haven't aged well." He tells her she is great...