Word: sidney
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sets of several pictures, has studied the editing, dubbing and scoring processes, has even sat in on a contract-haggling session in the William Morris talent agency. Between rubbernecking tours, he has picked some of the best and least complacent brains in the business-George Stevens Sr., Elia Kazan, Sidney Lumet. His homework has included not only the autobiography of Jack Warner but / Lost It at the Movies, Critic Pauline Kael's bristling broadside on what is wrong with Hollywood. (Valenti underlined the most compelling passages with a yellow felt-tip pen for future reference...
Died. Sir Sidney Oakes, 39, son of multimillionaire Sir Harry Oakes (victim of a famed, unsolved murder in 1943), a Nassau businessman and amateur sports car driver; of injuries when his Sunbeam Alpine failed to make a curve at high speed; in Nassau...
...Weaver) doesn't think any decent woman should have lived through the ordeal, much less have borne a son to an Indian chieftain. Bibi is de fended by a trail scout (James Garner), who is determined to find the marshal who slew and scalped his Comanche wife. Broncobuster Sidney Poitier and Scottish Cavalryman Bill Travers pointedly underplay the long thought that a man's color or accent is no measure of his worth...
There is today no agreed definition of what a hero is. Philosopher Sidney Hook defines a hero as an "eventmaking" man who changes history, like Churchill or Lenin, as distinct from the merely "eventful" man, like Lyndon Johnson (so far) or Charles de Gaulle. "De Gaulle would be an eventmaking man," says Hook, "if he had the power." Yet there are many heroes who did not change events, or who had heroism thrust upon them through accident...
...Hand for the Little Lady may sound like a cue for applause, but the title actually refers to a cardsharp coup. Rigged to resemble a movie, this indoor western is really a hilarious old television show by Sidney Carroll, who has adapted his original for the large screen without obvious padding. Regrettably, though, the sneaky trick ending remains the sort of hokum that good writers have blue-penciled since O. Henry's heyday. Probably no one will object to the bottom dealing because Little Lady is handsome entertainment, mounted with leathery high spirits by a crew who would gladly...