Word: vivien
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Vivien Dietz '83, "Taxing Vanity The History of Assessed Taxation in 18th Century Britain." Professor John Brewer...
DIED. Walter Reisch, 79, Academy Award-winning screen author who wrote, and occasionally directed, some 25 films in Austria and Germany before fleeing to the U.S. in the 1930s to script hit movies for Greta Garbo (Ninotchka), Ingrid Bergman (Gaslight) and Vivien Leigh (That Hamilton Woman) and to win an Oscar for the 1953 disaster epic Titanic; of pancreatic cancer; in Los Angeles...
Gags, puns and impersonations of celebrities from Vivien Leigh to Rodney Dangerfield abound throughout the show, occasionally detracting from the seriousness of the parables when they get out of hand. As Jesus tells his disciples that if a man takes their shirts, they should give him their coats, one character chimes in with. "Give 'em your tired, give 'em your poor," while another is shushed by his friend when he adds, "Give 'em hell." One particularly moving exchange is Christ's response to a character's complaint that she is an only child, "So am I," he says...
Laurence Olivier talks about life, acting and Vivien Leigh...
Before he went to war in 1965, he is fond of telling visitors, the raciest thing in the media was Clark Gable telling Vivien Leigh: "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn." Returning to America from the P.O.W. camps, he had to ask his wife what a massage parlor was. He still sees explicit sex as an "alien element" in our heritage. He passionately wants "to restore patriotism, especially among opinion formers, the people in the media and education." And he is unfazed by opposition, even mockery of his convictions for being naively overwrought...