Word: shoot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Shoot Tight." "Suddenly," said Frankenheimer, "it became very important to me to get this show on." In long conferences of Manulis, Frankenheimer, cast and whole production staff, ten lines were excised for appeasement purposes. So, by Miserable Tuesday, the unexpected crisis was over, and all the principals-Frankenheimer, Serling and Gazzara, Associate Director Jim Clark and Technical Director Brooks ("Nimble Fingers") Graham-could concentrate on the ordinary weekly Playhouse 90 crisis, the need to get out a show...
Crouching before the mobile monitor unit and chain-smoking ("Three packs of Sponsor Marlboros a day"), Frankenheimer bellowed comments to his cast and production staff. "That's the shot! It's beautiful. I love it." "It's sloppy. It stinks." "Shoot tight on someone in the foreground." He turned to direct a scene where Gazzara has just discovered that his roommate is dead. "Okay. Start Benny out of the bathroom, fellows. C'mon, I don't have much time." (Explained Frankenheimer on the side: "If you don't drive them, you have last-minute...
...runs his compact (2,600 students) campus in Macomb (pop. 10,592) as if he, and not the state, were the owner. When he is not enjoying his paneled and well-equipped office (TV, hifi, radio, air conditioning), he is apt to be stomping about outside, shooting at pigeons with a shotgun, or scaring away stray dogs with a BB gun ("I don't see anything wrong with that. Some have hydrophobia"). One apocryphal story has it that on one pigeon shoot he accidentally pinked a member of the Teachers College Board of Illinois...
Last week Newsman Reddick, 43, almost covered his last story. Tipped off at 2 a.m. that an auto had exploded after plowing into a fish shack on the Coast Highway, Reddick was shooting flashbulb pictures of the wreckage when he heard a man's voice screaming: "Don't shoot!" A moment later a body hit the ground at his feet. As the newsman bent to examine it, a wild-eyed stranger jammed a .22 Colt automatic in Reddick's neck and pressed the trigger. The piece clicked harmlessly, and Reddick leaped behind a nearby fire truck. "Look...
RABAT, Morocco, Nov. 28--Crown Prince Moulay Hassan today charged Spanish forces with attacking Moroccan territory from the hills of the rebellious colony of Ifni, and ordered the royal army to shoot back...