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...future wife, the actress Melina Mercouri. They made nine films together, including his biggest success, Never on Sunday. That romantic comedy, with the director playing a naive American grecophile and Mercouri as the Athens whore who liberates him, landed Dassin two Oscar nominations, for director and screenplay. In 1964, Topkapi also proved quite popular. But that was his last hit, 44 years...
...often manifested as stubbornness, but that was only because screenwriter Abby Mann believed it was his duty to contribute to the betterment of mankind. His works tackled complex social issues: the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., the challenges faced by mentally disabled children and, in his best-known screenplay, 1961's Oscar-winning Judgment at Nuremberg, the accountability of those who worked with the Nazis. He was known to recall his works if he didn't like the way they had been adapted, often out of concern that they would lose their social relevance. "A great screenwriter should...
...Widmark met his first wife, Jean Hazlewood, when they were students at Lake Forest. They married in 1942 and became one of Hollywood's most quietly renowned couples. Hazlewood wrote the screenplay for Widmark's one film as a director, The Secret Ways in 1961. Their daughter Anne married Hall of Famer Sandy Koufax in 1969. Richard and Anne were married for 55 years until Hazlewood's death, after a long siege of Alzheimer's disease, in 1997. He told New York Times reporter Aljean Harmetz that he had never been unfaithful or even flirted with other women because...
...problem in bringing Precious to film was certainly not a lack of A-list interest. Director Anthony Minghella (The English Patient, Cold Mountain) and producer Sydney Pollack, both Oscar winners, optioned The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency in January 2001. Minghella co-wrote the screenplay with Oscar nominee Richard Curtis (Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill). And Hollywood heavy hitter Harvey Weinstein signed on as the distributor...
...business expanded, so did the mythology that began to build up around him. Articles were written about him. And a book. And a screenplay. He gave radio interviews in Moscow. Nevertheless, in the 1990s, there were few known photographs of him. In 2003, however, he agreed to an interview with the New York Times Magazine and stood for a portrait dressed in a nappy tan suit. In the interview, Bout tried to paint himself as a hard-working entrepreneur, vegetarian and nature lover who just happened to spend a lot of time flying into African conflict zones...