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...Filming One, Two, Three, an East-West satire set in West Berlin and based on a comedy by the late Ferenc Molnar, Director Billy Wilder sent Horst Buchholz, who plays an East German motorcycle bum, past the Brandenburg Gate with a balloon on his exhaust pipe. It inflated, as the script ordered-displaying the words RUSSKI GO HOME. Out came a platoon of People's Police, plus a Russian official who was not amused. Retreating from the row that followed, Wilder moved to Munich, where he is finishing the film beside an enormous reproduction of the Brandenburg Gate...
After buying the best material they can find, the Mirisch brothers hire the best directors in Hollywood, then give them artistic control over their films, plus part ownership of the negatives. This has attracted such major directorial names as Billy Wilder, William Wyler and Fred Zinnemann, all of whom are currently at work on Mirisch films. Since, as independents, the brothers operate with a negligible overhead (5% v. Columbia's 22½%, lowest overhead of a major studio), there is plenty of money for directors and stars alike. Even other independents shy from the pace of the three...
...office-is its own punishment. So many "adult" films are being produced that Manhattan's family citadel, Radio City Music Hall, is showing pictures such as Parrish, all about sex and sadism on a tobacco farm. Even last year's top Oscar winner. Billy Wilder, signed Shirley MacLaine for The Apartment before he had a word on paper, with the pitch that he wanted to make a film about "that grand old American folk ritual, the afternoon shack-up." In Co-Writer-Producer-Director Wilder's hands, the result was one of the sharpest social satires ever...
...Steven Lipper '64 has won the Elizabeth Wilder Prize for the highest examination mark in elementary German in the middle of the freshman year...
UNIVERSITY: The Academy Award winner of 1960, Billy Wilder's THE APARTMENT is a half-funny, half-frightening probe into the mores of mid-century Big Business. The thousand faces of Jack Lemmon are uniformly hilarious; but Fred MacMurray, a boss-type figure and also a happy adulterer, is just an ugly slob. Shirley MacLaine, the apex of the triangle, is unusually wistful; at one point, she is made to attempt suicide. Whatever else it may be The Apartment is most definitely not the most amusing film since Some Like It Hot. Daily...