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...director, Beatty signed up Arthur Penn, 45, a narrow, sparrowish Broadway veteran (Two For the Seesaw), whose Hollywood record included a few hits (The Miracle Worker), several flops (The Chase, Mickey One). Penn wanted the film edited in Manhattan, which meant that the choice of which scenes would end up on the cutting-room floor would take place 2,500 miles from the home base of Warner Bros. To Jack Warner, 75, who liked to make his own pick of the rushes, everything but salami should be cut in the studio. More problems were to follow-arguments about sound, music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood: The Shock of Freedom in Films | 12/8/1967 | See Source »

...others, Paul Barstow's quiet and noble Duke Senior, Richard Conrad's tuneful Amiens and Maggie Zizkind's pert, English-sparrowish Celia merit attention and more space than I can give them...

Author: By Anthony Hiss, | Title: As You Like It | 7/6/1961 | See Source »

Latest answer to these riddles was offered this week in a shrewd and seductive biography by erudite, witty, sparrowish Salvador de Madariaga, Spain's famed philosopher-journalist-diplomat. He declares that Cristóbal Colón was a Genoa-born, converted Spanish Jew; that his family fled Catalonia during the Jewish pogroms around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Jewish Discoverer? | 1/29/1940 | See Source »

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