Word: sunsets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...established beyond question as one of Hollywood's most successful screenwriters, as a director who ranks with George Stevens (The Diary of Anne Frank), William Wyler (Ben Hur) and Fred Zinneman (A Nun's Story) in the Big Four, and as a witsnapper, fathead-shrinker, Sunset Boulevardier and allround character who has achieved notoriety not often rivaled in movieland...
Having made 23 Hollywood pictures, most of them commercial successes, Wilder has been nominated 18 times for Academy Awards and won three, for Lost Weekend (director and coauthor) and Sunset Boulevard (co-author). Says he with a snarl: "I was robbed 15 times." But he adds: "I am batting twice as good as Ted Williams ever...
...Charlie Brackett and rough Billy Wilder clicked right away. Wilder spewed Niagaras of notions, and in this prodigious stream of consciousness, Brackett fished for usable ideas. Together they wrote 14 films without a single flop, and some of their movies were among the biggest hits (Ninotchka, The Lost Weekend, Sunset Boulevard) of the era. But in 1950 Brackett and Wilder broke up. Says Wilder: "Sometimes a match and the striking surface both wear out, and that's what happened to us." Says Brackett: "Billy had outgrown his divided fame...
Around the World. In the midst of the furor. Hal Hayes suddenly reappeared at his Beverly Hills home, then called reporters to the bar of a Sunset Strip restaurant. He had not been "missing," he told . them, but had been around the world. He had been to the summit con ference in Paris, and to Hong Kong, Cairo and Beirut; he had been negotiating to build missile bases in France. Italy and Pakistan. "I haven't been hiding from anyone," said Hal Hayes. "Everybody is going to get paid. As of tonight, we've written $40 million worth...
...money rolled in, it rolled out. Hayes found in 1950 that he was paying $70,000 a year for entertainment, so he set up his own nightclub in a $400-a-month Sunset Strip apartment with a dance floor, a waterfall, and rugs running up the walls. When he became engaged to Zsa Zsa Gabor (whom he made a vice president of his company), he gave her a 45-carat blue-white diamond so heavy that Zsa Zsa, who also knows a thing or two about publicity, could only gesticulate with her right, or free, hand. When the engagement broke...