Word: tycoons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...like his tycoon contemporaries, well into middle age. What distinguishes him from the other super sealords is the incredible pace at which he has expanded his fleet. With a personal fortune estimated by his business associates at anywhere from $300 million to $800 million, Pao does not ever have to go near a shipyard again. Yet he shows no sign of relaxing. After announcing his latest orders last week in New York, Pao hopped a plane for Tokyo to look for shipyards interested in another maxi-order...
...such is Cold Turkey, an extended sitcom loaded with the kind of jokes that induce canned laughter. Like the Mock Turtle, Writer-Director Norman Lear attempts an arithmetic composed of Ambition, Distraction, Uglification and Derision. A tobacco tycoon (the late Edward Everett Horton) offers $25 million to any American city whose inhabitants can quit smoking for 30 days, on the plausible theory that it cannot be done. But he reckons without the Rev. Clayton Brooks (Dick Van Dyke). Led by the uptight, upright preacher, Eagle Rock, Iowa, turns abolitionist. In the process, it writhes with collective withdrawal symptoms familiar...
Fitzgerald, as Latham painstakingly documents, was always fascinated by the film and the new industry it had created in America. Representatives of the movie world appear as characters in Tender is the Night (1934), many short stories, and of course at the center of The Last Tycoon, the Hollywood novel Fitzgerald was working on when he died. Latham mines all these works for relevant material-including some passages Edmund Wilson left out of the unfinished Tycoon manuscript he edited after Fitzgerald's death and an early unpublished draft of Tender . in which the novel's central figure was a movie...
...Side of Paradise ; then take a look at the underwritten but magnificently researched Zelda . Better yet, take advantage of the Fitzgerald revival by getting copies of his works themselves, large stacks of which can now be found in every bookstore. In the past year, Fitzgerald's Hollywood works, Tycoon and The Pat Hobby Stories, have been published in paperback for the first time. So read them, and then take another look at Tender is the Night , his best novel. And, for that matter, you could do a lot worse things with your time than reading the collected stories (among them...
...event, the ultimate fate of a play depends on the producer. David Merrick has proved that conclusively by keeping plays alive that every critic has panned. As co-producers of the smash musical Applause, Kipness and Kasha are rolling in money. Kipness is also a restaurant tycoon who owns Pier 52, Hawaii Kai and Dinty Moore's. Yet he and Kasha cravenly folded their theatrical tents in a single night and silently skulked away. Following is an account of the play they killed...