Word: spiegelized
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...gait was unhurried, the paunch impressive as a Roman emperor's, the head massive as a Percheron's. Producer Sam Spiegel, to the strains of the theme music from Lawrence of Arabia, was advancing down the aisle of the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium to accept the Academy Award for Best Picture of the Year...
...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...
...There were, of course, local issues, but no one doubted that the C.D.U. suffered from the tarnished image of Adenauer's national party, which has been slipping in local and state elections. Recent discontent focuses on the government's clumsy "treason" crackdown on the newsmagazine Der Spiegel last November, and more important, on the stubborn refusal of Adenauer to clear the way for his own retirement and choice of a new C.D.U. leader...