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Selling Tool. "Nobody really knows what this film is about but me," says Altman. And he is not saying, because "if you spell it all out, it becomes too much on the nose, too obvious in the actual shooting." Stacy Reach, for example, knows little more than that he is the 120-year-old third Wright brother; he is supposed to wing it from there. A screenplay to Altman (who used to write them) is just "a selling tool" to get financing, and afterwards, "not much more than a production schedule." In the middle of shooting McCloud the other...
...press conference, Rogers refused to spell out the terms of the U.S. proposals. He feared that Arab leaders would find it politically impossible to agree with the U.S. initiatives if the terms were made public. Actually, the American message had already gone out to the Middle East principals, including Israel, Egypt and Jordan, and to such interested parties as the Soviet Union, Britain, France, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Libya. In capital after capital, the terms of the U.S. initiative leaked...
Harlan also noted that the Constitution does not spell out the rule that juries must be unanimous in order to convict. As a result, he suggested, that rule, too, may be called into question by White's refusal to preserve common-law tradition. Said Harlan: "The uncertainty that will henceforth plague the meaning of trial by jury is itself a sufficient reason for not hoisting the anchor to history...
...three or four years and says its effects are "frightfully good." He admits that his wrist turns green, but then "all that is part of the juju, what?" Lanning Roper, garden editor of London's Sunday Times, another believer, has discovered an added benefit. "During the last hot spell," he told TIME'S Betty Suyker, "I took it off for a few days and suddenly I felt...
...managers and player representatives had to select the nominees last spring, which is about as reliable as trying to predict the Dow-Jones averages eight months in advance. Spaces were left on the ballot for write-in votes-but how many fans will take the time or trouble to spell Billy Grabarkewitz, a surprise .339 hitter on the Los Angeles Dodgers...