Word: wald
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...once and told me that he wanted me to help him bring M-G-M back to the top of the heap with quality pictures. Then he gave me my first assignment. It was something called Rape, Baby." Local Off-Color. Working in much the same vein is Jerry Wald, who recently announced that Peyton Place was going to be a grandfather. So successful was P.P.'s first sequel, Return to Peyton Place, that it will have a sequel of its own, Peyton Place Revisited. Like its predecessors, the new installment will first be written in novel form; Producer...
Among the 12 faculty members who have already agreed to participate are professors George Wald, Robert P. Levine, John G. Torrey, and possibly Matthew A. Meselson and William R. Sistrom...
Last week Producer Jerry Wald, whose last two films have been Grace Metalious' Return to Peyton Place and Elvis Presley's Wild in the Country, and whose heart's desire is to film James Joyce's Ulysses, said in self-defense: "I'm not idiotic enough to put Metalious on a level with Joyce." (He had been quoted as saying that Ulysses would make "as exciting a film as Peyton Place") "It's like talking about hamburger and steak. They're both meat, but one of them tastes better...
Smacking his lips, Wald went on: "Ulysses is the only original novel written in our time, and you have to respect it. I think Mr. Joyce was an excellent screenplay writer. I've been going over and over the book to see what the camera can do. There's Stephen the artist, searching for someone to replace his drunken father, and Mr. Bloom, searching for the son he's lost. Ulysses is essentially an adventure story. The characters have to do with the perennial struggle between all men because of their desire to compete...
Return to Peyton Place (20th Century-Fox) is a recrawl of the New England gutters so noisomely celebrated by Author Grace Metalious in Peyton Place. Fortunately, much that lies hidden between hard covers cannot decently be put on film; Producer Jerry Wald has had to wash that smut right out of his script. That means there just isn't anything left...