Word: tycoons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Speeking Freely. Darryl F. Zanuck, the last tycoon, reminisces. 5:30 p.m., March 26. Chan...
...state ownership of enterprise has spread, a new kind of tycoon has risen to head Italy's major corporations -outstanding economists or financiers who have spent all or most of their careers in government employ. Under these men, the state-run firms operate with little of the bureaucratic bumbling and political waffling that afflicts nationalized industry in other countries. In Italy, state managers combine the prudence of the civil servant and the dash of the entrepreneur with chilling effectiveness. Usually indifferent to the trappings of authority and the dazzle of the spotlight, they nonetheless wield enormous power-often greater...
They're all there: the lucky understudy, the reunited father and son, the aging star, the play within a play convention, the color, the team spirit, and True Love. Added to these is Mr. DeThrill, a Hollywood tycoon who for some unknown reason decides to attend a matinee in this particularly tacky town somewhere in the sticks of Britain. A new Busby Berkeley who sees in color instead of black and white, he imagines everything as it might appear on the Big Screen. Suddenly the confines of a stage are forgotten. His multiple vision transforms each girl into a bevy...
...TWIGGY and the boy friend are the most unreal character in the film, although the tycoon, with his ubiquitous cigar, comes a close third. Christopher Gable, who plays Tchaikovsky's lover in Russell's The Music Lovers (Glenda Jackson played his wife) doesn't look much different here; it's all in his surroundings. Russell doesn't show much interest in his actors, using them more like props than people. In Women in Love, with good actors speaking a script derived from D.H. Lawrence's novel, Russell's direction added that overripeness that characterizes Lawrence's prose...
...spoken off the printed page and dedicated to what he considers "oldfashioned absolutes": honor, patriotism, good manners. He loves tennis, riding, shooting, skiing and salmon fishing-interests he shares enthusiastically with his third wife Nackey, a talented painter, sculptress and horsewoman who is the granddaughter of the late newspaper tycoon E. W. Scripps...