Word: successful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Miller was an early success. Born in Sapulpa, Okla., he received a degree in marine engineering from the Coast Guard Academy in 1945 and was stationed in Shanghai. There, in 1946, he met and married his wife Ariadna, of Russian parentage, who had lived in Harbin, Manchuria. In 1952, he received a law degree from the University of California at Berkeley and settled in as an attorney at Cravath, Swaine and Moore, the prestigious Wall Street law firm. While there he became friendly with Royal Little, the New England businessman who was putting together Textron, one of the first conglomerates...
...fiscal 1979 hangs the toothy official portrait of Jimmy Carter. Standard decoration for thousands of Washington offices-but the budget boss's picture is different; on it the President has written: "To my good and early friend Jim Mclntyre." That inscription tells the secret of Mclntyre's success. A small-town Georgian like his boss and so many other now prominent Washingtonians, Mclntyre met Carter in 1970, when the President was a defeated Georgia politician trying again for state office. Last week Mclntyre, 37, a quiet lawyer turned figure technician, got the job most recently filled...
...secret of Reynolds' and Eastwood's success is that they also have found ways to fulfill the often unexpressed longings of this group, to make that essentially 19th century figure, the resourceful Western loner, into a 20th century character. For what, after all, are Eastwood's many cops but Westerners wearing suits instead of chaps, carrying an automatic instead of a six-gun? Clint's first cop?Coogan in Coogan's Bluff?is a Westerner, an Arizona deputy sheriff who goes to New York City to extradite a prisoner and is soon on a collision course with police-judicial bureaucracy...
...magazine hit the stands just as Reynolds' first really good picture, Deliverance, hit the screen, and some of his friends think the gatefold may have cost him an Academy Award nomination. Overall, however, his strategy worked. He has not had to play a heavy in years, and his success as a highly bankable "light" gives him more and more chances to call his own shots, even to direct himself, in Gator (1976) and the upcoming...
Bronson's biggest success was 1974's Death Wish, in which he played a nice guy turned vigilante. Since then his pictures have not done as well. Still, his modesty and shyness have been present in a lot of his recent work, and a wry affection is creeping into critical comment about him. Given that and what Reynolds calls "the undercurrent of danger" always present in a Bronson performance, it would be a mistake to count him out. He may be more dependent than his competitors on chance delivering the right script, but if a sizzler turns...