Word: rounds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bless the sweet woman! I think she may have fired the shot heard 'round the U.S.A...
...weather, disarmament, how Los Angeles smog resembled the cold war, then looked at Mayor Poulson. "I want to ask you," he said, "why did you mention that? Already in the U.S. I have clarified that. I trust that even mayors read." The crowd gave Khrushchev a laugh and a round of applause. "In our country," Khrushchev went on, "chairmen of councils who do not read the press risk not being re-elected." The crowd gave Khrushchev another big hand; two-time Mayor Poulson turned crimson. Then Khrushchev went on: "Ladies and gentlemen, you want to get up on this favorite...
...couple of Broadway turkeys slowed him hardly at all. He moved to Hollywood, began to grind out TV shows, a movie script and, finally, The Marriage-Go-Round. Everything he touched turned to money. And as he tried to fend off the tax collector, his corporate complex became as complicated as any in the New Hollywood, where tax angles are more important than camera angles...
...There is nothing wrong with being a hack writer," says self-styled Hollywood Hack Leslie (The Marriage-Go-Round) Stevens. "I would point with pride to the inspired hacking of Shakespeare, Michelangelo-you can go through a big list. I am a firm believer in Hollywood's golden future, and thumb my nose at those who cry 'Twilight in the Smog...
...pudgy, archangel-faced Leslie Stevens is one of the hottest writer-tycoons in or out of the smog. He is also one of Hollywood's new breed: the curious combination of corporation executive and creative artist that is taking over the town. On Broadway, Stevens' Marriage-Go-Round, with Charles Boyer and Claudette Colbert, is spinning briskly into its second season. The pilot shows for a couple of TV series are ready for production. The Pink Jungle, his new, Broadway-bound comedy about the cosmetics industry, is in rehearsal. And last week he was busy editing the film...