Word: swansons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...follow, the strange man beside me, more than my husband, owned me." Another steamy Hollywood confession? Indeed, and also another titillating chapter in the ever expanding Kennedy legend. This time the protagonist is not Lady-Killer Jack, but Joseph Sr., family patriarch. In her soon-to-be-published autobiography, Swanson on Swanson, former Movie Queen Gloria Swanson, 81, describes a 1927-29 liaison with the elder Kennedy, a business partner in many of her films. The affair destroyed her marriage to the Marquis de la Falaise, she reports, and nearly ended Kennedy's to Rose. The impending scandal, writes...
Genentech was founded in 1976 by Herbert Boyer, a biochemistry professor at the University of California at San Francisco and a pioneer in recombinant DNA, and Robert Swanson, a financier who finds backers for new companies. Almost immediately, the firm began announcing a series of breakthroughs. The first, in 1977, was the production of a brain hormone called somatostatin, which may be used to treat certain hormonal disorders. In 1979 the company developed thymosin alpha1, which is now being tested by the National Cancer Institute for possible treatment of certain types of brain and lung cancer. Genentech's gross...
...narrative structure. What is meant as a species of cinema verite may too easily become as specious as old-fashioned movie-star acting. Cassavetes is a deadly serious director, but his films are best seen as rickety star vehicles. His most shining star-his Bette Davis, his Gloria Swanson, his Joan Blondell-is his wife Gena Rowlands. In Gloria, he has finally realized her strengths and her limitations, and has cranked out a passable imitation of those '30s gangster movies with brassy broads and sassy tots, a Methodical Little Miss Marked Woman...
There is also new information about the era's most famous flameouts (D.W. Griffith, Buster Keaton, Erich von Stroheim) and the best-documented veterans (Gloria Swanson, King Vidor, Lillian Gish). Even the trivia somehow does not seem trivial. It is touching to hear Frank Capra recall Mack Sennett's sad mansion full of unread books and overdressed servants. Director Henry Hathaway, who remained active past True Grit (1969), wittily brings back the days when his job was to follow DeMille around with a chair on location. A writer remembers the shock of seeing her credits on a silent...
...house on the right is occupied by Cora Swanson (Teresa Wright), her husband Theodore, known as Thor (Maurice Copeland), and the spinster sister, Aaronetta (Elizabeth Wilson), who has lived with them for 40 years. Cora feels she can no longer bear this cross. When it develops that Aaronetta was not an inviolate spinster, at least vis-a-vis Thor, summer lightning flashes through the houses...