Word: spiegelized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Spiegel had traveled the red carpet toward the top Oscar twice before-in 1954 for On the Waterfront, and in 1957 for The Bridge on the River Kwai. And Central Casting itself could not produce a more classic prototype of the Hollywood producer. He chomps cigars, calls everybody baby except babies, speaks nine languages, all of them except his native German with a heavy accent. He is a hard man to work for. The story goes that when Writer Irwin Shaw was working on Waterfront, his wife awoke one morning at 3 o'clock to find her husband...
...Spiegel, a man whose self-made vision of his mission is clear and explicit, is serenely unperturbed by such minor rebellions. "The producer's job is to conceive a picture, to dream it up, to have the first concept of what a film is going to be like when it is finished, before a word is written, a part is cast, a director thought of. Most of the pictures I have made in recent years have come out quite close to the way I conceived them...
Next, Z. A. Nuck? It took Spiegel years to make the climb to this pinnacle of authority. At one point, back in the 1940s, he even changed his name to get there. Better known then for his lavish annual New Year's Eve parties than for the pictures he put out, Spiegel decided that what might hold true for roses was simply not so for him, renamed himself "for professional purposes" S. P. Eagle. Hollywood roared with laughter; sports referred to one Eagle picture as The S. T. Ranger, suggested that Z. A. Nuck and L. U. Bitsch follow...
...Spiegel is as arbitrary about his background as he used to be about his name. Born some 58, 59 or 60 years ago in Jaroslau, Austria (now Poland), he studied at the University of Vienna, went to work as a "Young Pioneer" in Palestine. Sensing greater profits elsewhere, Spiegel became a cotton broker, traveled to the U.S. on business. In Hollywood he so charmed M-G-M Producer Paul Bern that Bern put him under contract as reader and adviser...
...Universal sent him to Berlin to arrange for the exhibition of the German version of All Quiet on the Western Front. The film was banned when the Nazis bombed the theater opening night, but Spiegel ran a series of private screenings for Reichstag members and Nazi Leaders Hitler, Goebbels, and Goring. Over the Nazis' protests, the ban was lifted. But when Hitler came to power in 1933, Spiegel thought it best to flee to Vienna. Six years later, he returned to Hollywood with an idea for casting a picture with nothing but stars. Tales of Manhattan had nothing...