Word: wilder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...self-respecting picturemaker would ever want to work for your company," Old Friend Billy Wilder wired. "The sooner the bulldozers raze your studio, the better it will be for the industry." Elizabeth Taylor, ailing in Paris with a throat infection, managed to whisper "disgraceful, degrading, particularly humiliating. Mr. Mankiewicz took over when
Magical Power. At first glance, the six objects of Wescott's literary affection-Katherine Anne Porter, Somerset Maugham, Colette. Isak Dinesen, Thomas Mann and Thornton Wilder-seem to have little in common. But all illustrate Wescott's passionate belief in the magical power of a story to hold those brooding truths about human behavior that cannot be abstracted as philosophy or illuminated in the swift lightning of poetic metaphor...
...friends. In Hollywood-he has a mansion in Beverly Hills-he runs with no pack and is rarely seen at parties or premiéres. "I don't know anyone who has been to Grant's house in the last ten years," says Director Billy Wilder. Grant steadfastly insists that he has as much right to his privacy as a plumber or a municipal clerk. When people ask for his autograph he gives them an incredulous look as if they were trying to crash a party, and if some jolly clod says, "Put your John Hancock right here...
Dumb Waiter, Thornton Wilder's Pullman Car Hiawatha and Samuel Beckett's Act Without Words...
...Bounty production, conducting mutinies of his own that helped drive production costs beyond $20 million. Films exist at the whim of their stars. Marilyn Monroe's various illnesses have kept her away from Fox's Something's Got to Give; says Di rector Billy Wilder, who knows her from the anguished days of Some Like It Hot: "It used to be you'd call her at 9 a.m., she'd show up at noon. Now you call her in May - she shows up in October. We should be able to kick out an actress, have...