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...should have known by then that Hollywood was just Winchell's Broadway with better weather; chicanery and cupidity know no time zone. At Lehman's first meeting with Lancaster, the actor walked in zipping his fly and declaring, "She swallowed it!" Soon Lehman's writing assignments were extending beyond script work, according to Kate Buford's cogent biography, "Lancaster: An American Life," which gives the fullest account of the making of "Sweet Smell." Barbara Nichols, who was to play the sexy cigarette girl, had spent most of a recent night trysting with the film's producer, James Hill - like Lancaster...
...movie script improves on the novelette in two basic ways: by what's added (the whipcrack pungency of Odets' dialogue) and what's missing. Sidney no longer has a souring affair with J.J.'s secretary. (The boy is all ego, not libido; he's too busy screwing his clients to waste time screwing a secretary.) Also gone are the interior monologues, and good riddance; Sidney has no soul to confide to us. But he has a handsome line of patter - a slick pitch (most likely a spitter) for shoddy merchandise. He stops you on the street, talks fast, and suddenly...
...studios. They hit the honchos with hard facts: a million teens a year become daily smokers, and a third of those will eventually die from tobacco-related illness. When Doran and Moses met with executives from Imagine Pictures, says Doran, "they said, 'Smoking is not in any of our scripts.' But then they called the next day and said, 'We looked, and it's everywhere.'" Karen Kehela, co-chairman of Imagine, recalls trying to take smoking out of one script after the meeting, "but the actor insisted on smoking," she says. In fact, many movie stars can't leave their...
...Legend's response to slowing PC demand on the mainland has followed the industry script: the company has decided to diversify. Among numerous initiatives: manufacture of palmtop PDAs; an expanding chain of more than 500 retail computer stores; a move into Internet services that includes a partnership with AOL Time Warner (TIME's parent company); and contract manufacturing. In the future, Legend expects to generate substantial profits by providing I.T. services to Chinese corporations-up to 30% of the company's total profit by three years' time. Legend, through a joint venture with Xiamen Overseas Chinese Electronic, has even agreed...
Harvard Coach Kathy Delaney-Smith, nationally renowned for leading the 1998 Harvard team to an upset of top-seeded Stanford, couldn’t script another Cinderella story this season...