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...semiliterate. But as A. Scott Berg demonstrates in this readable, richly researched biography, Goldwyn was never an archetypal anything, except in his poor Jewish origins in Eastern Europe. Unlike the Mayers and Warners, he made relatively few films, and he never built a mighty empire with a huge star roster and an immense distribution network. He was the ultimate independent producer, with a compulsive need for autonomy and control ("I made Wuthering Heights," he once said. "((William)) Wyler only directed...
...fill out the roster of voiceless messengers from Walker, there are a host of stereotypical minor characters. An aged British aunt spits out attacks on the Victorian era on her deathbed. A poor little rich girl buys a yacht to rescue Carlotta and Zede from prison, and, after wandering through the jungle in pink boots, she makes a new identity as an art teacher in Africa. Her rich parents, she claims, have "personally assasinated six rivers and massacred twelve lakes." A vicious guerilla fighter with a heart mothers a child and dies of grief when the father takes the daughter...
...seven-nights-per-week volunteer organization recruits by word of mouth, with students signing up for an 11 p.m. to 5 a.m. shift about once every two weeks. SafeStreets' current roster of volunteers now stands at about...
...Harvard's potent roster did not earn fear and veneration from the West's best and brightest...
There are 20 members in the club and 11 on the team. The roster varies according to who can make the games...