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...eliminate or reduce Cuban sugar quotas. Sugar is Cuba's biggest crop, and the action can hurt-and can also lead to further Castro reprisals on the billion-dollar private U.S. investment in the island. But then, so long as Castro lasts, U.S. property exists at his whim anyway...
After two punishingly lean years, Wilder at last got a screenwriting job at Paramount. And at the whim of an executive producer, he was teamed with Writer Charles Brackett, onetime drama critic for The New Yorker. Suave Charlie Brackett and rough Billy Wilder clicked right away. Wilder spewed Niagaras of notions, and in this prodigious stream of consciousness, Brackett fished for usable ideas. Together they wrote 14 films without a single flop, and some of their movies were among the biggest hits (Ninotchka, The Lost Weekend, Sunset Boulevard) of the era. But in 1950 Brackett and Wilder broke up. Says...
...beating the queue in front of the ladies' room.'' So great is his prestige that Film Producer Peter Bamberger says: "Obermaier has written himself into such power that he can seemingly make or break anyone in German moviedom. Last year in Venice, on a pure whim, he picked up Barbara Valentin-a blowzy blonde whom he referred to in private as a 'fat louse.' Within one month, with the aid of all the columnists in the illustrateds who copy Hunter in everything he does, he made her into Germany's No. 1 femme fatale...
Indulge a whim we surely...
...owners of this lavish jungle hostelry are Hollywood Actor William Holden, Swiss Industrialist Carl Hirschmann and a jaunty U.S. oil millionaire and gambler named Ray Ryan. The three claim to have sunk a million dollars into improving the once staid Mawingo, which Ryan bought on a whim over a few drinks...