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Director Billy Wilder was shrewd enough to see it. He signed Holden for the role of the mixed-up gigolo in Sunset Boulevard. The critics cheered, and chose Holden the best actor of 1950; but the public was still not wildly enthusiastic. One day in a supermarket-after 14 years as a Hollywood headliner-Bill saw a woman staring at him. "Young man," she finally said, "you really ought to be in pictures. You look so much like Alan Ladd...
...problems of the big executives, and to wish a little wistfully sometimes that they were his to solve. Force of Arms, Submarine Command, Boots Malone-his face, though it was slowly maturing, was still his misfortune. "Do me a favor, Bill," a director wisecracked. "Go on over to Sunset Boulevard and let a truck run over that kisser...
...groups. He wakes at 5 a.m. in the Bel Air mansion he bought from Hotelman Conrad Hilton (who recently commissioned Pereira and Luckman to design the Berlin Hilton hotel), usually has at least one hour's work behind him when he sets out for the firm's Sunset Boulevard offices. Outwardly, Chuck Luckman has changed little since he washed Lever Bros, out of his thinning sandy hair. "The drive is still in me," says he, "though perhaps I control the momentum a little better...
...Long slopes they climbed, dark, hard-edged against the sky already red with sunset. Dusk came. They passed away, grey shadows in a stony land...
...wheel to a friend with the remark: "This piece will first be used in another thousand years.") Among the things that the clock computes: the days of the week, date, month and year on the Gregorian calendar, the Julian day and year, the movements of the planets, sunrise and sunset by mean solar time and true solar time, central European time, and sidereal time. Inventor Olsen's own favorite chronologic refinement: a calendar of church feasts, which at the beginning of each year records the coming year's feast days after the calendar mechanism has gone through...