Word: sidney
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...travel basically enables companies to get their products to market and their salesmen to customers. "We are dependent on the airlines," says Sidney Topol, chairman of Scientific-Atlanta Inc., a firm that manufactures satellite antennas and other telecommunications equipment. "I've got 100 salesmen in the field, and air-travel availability is important. There is simply no substitute for face-to-face contact with customers...
...DIED. Sidney (Paddy) Chayefsky, 58, Bronx-born, barrel-chested playwright who won three Oscars (for Marty, The Hospital and Network); of cancer; in Manhattan. First successful in TV, he wrote Marty as a humorous love story, was startled when viewers cried. He had three Broadway hits (Middle of the Night, The Tenth Man and Gideon). The essence of his writing, he said, was to portray "characters caught in the decline of their society...
Maybe B.P. was too much the gambler, more excited by the flow of the play than by the final totals. Maybe his long-running affair with Sylvia Sidney, then one of his most winsome discoveries, diverted attention just as the coming of sound and the Great Depression led to bitter executive battles at Paramount. And maybe he needed to prove that Ad was right after...
...decided not to depend on Father-for anything," she told Budd as her marriage wound down. "In all these years he has practically nothing to show for the millions he's earned . . . he lives in that dream world of his, with people like . . . the Sidney woman telling him how great he is." The solution: Ad became one of Hollywood's top agents, a status she solidified one afternoon on the casting couch of the mightiest mogul of them all, Louis B. Mayer. She paid Budd 25? and up for every certified classic he read...
...discovered that he could live handsomely off subsidiary rights. The Thin Man (1934) was his last and most careless novel; it ultimately brought him almost $1 million from film and radio serializations. Hollywood kept recycling his material; the 1941 version of The Maltese Falcon, with Humphrey Bogart and Sidney Greenstreet, was the third film based on that book in ten years. Hammett had always shown a streak of to-hell-with-it independence, and success made him increasingly reckless. He partied and drank too much, offended studio heads and publishers with his disregard for deadlines. He ran up huge bills...