Word: vincent
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Waitin' in the Wings, sponsored by Manhattan Community College, was a tribute to the theater's least seen and, by definition, most obscure performers, the understudies. "They are always ready, rarely called upon and least appreciated," said Vincent Sardi, owner of Sardi's and the show's host. They have one of the most frustrating occupations in the country: being prepared to go on if something befalls someone else...
...Chief Henry Grunwald, who observed that TIME and Newsweek have been "inevitably linked as a fated pair, like Macy's and Gimbels, Coke and Pepsi, Hertz and Avis." Former Newsweek Editor in Chief Osborn Elliott recalled the day in 1961 when Philip Graham bought the magazine from Vincent Astor's estate. "All he had was a personal check," reported Elliott. "He said later he had never written a check for that amount of money and didn't know if he should put zero zero cents after the 2 million" for the down payment. Speculation was that...
...Paramount lot, working on the last Winds of War episode. I drove to Montecito, a suburb south of Santa Barbara, to talk with Robert Mitchum, a gifted storyteller who answers almost every question with an anecdote. I interviewed about 20 people connected with the program: Jan-Michael Vincent at his favorite Malibu hangout, Ali MacGraw at a Los Angeles hotel, John Houseman at a shooting of The Paper Chase. At the end of it all, I felt I'd been involved in a mini-epic...
Along with Henry's adventures in history, Wouk has constructed various subplots involving Henry's family, particularly his son Byron (Jan-Michael Vincent), and Natalie Jastrow (Ali MacGraw), the American Jew Byron woos and marries. Natalie is an impetuous and headstrong woman who works as secretary to her Uncle Aaron (Houseman), a cultivated historian who lives in Bernard Berenson-style splendor outside Siena...
...Bergen is touching as the flighty, shallow but nonetheless sympathetic Rhoda; Houseman, who has been blessed with a much more amiable character than he usually portrays, is convincing as the civilized survivor of an ancient society who cannot believe that the barbarians have finally broken through the gates; and Vincent brings to the part of Byron a force of vitality and a hard, sometimes menacing passion. The only really bad performance, in fact, is MacGraw's. Although she looks splendid, she flounders in a role for which she is ill suited. Her voice has no inflections, her face...