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...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...
...Wonderful Climax." The White House-sponsored acknowledgment of culture was spreading all over Washington. Last week Novelist Thornton Wilder came to town to read from his works at a "Cabinet Evening" in the State Department Auditorium; he stayed over for a White House dinner this week honoring French Minister for Culture André Malraux for which the guest list was heavily studded with actors and writers. "Washington," said Wilder grandiloquently, "is becoming like a lighthouse on the hill for those things for which we spend our lives...
...tastemakers is the Thonet rocker. A cross between a badminton racquet and a Flexible Flyer, this calligraphic doyen of gracious sitting shows off to great advantage against the stark whiteness of painted bricks or modish raw plaster walls. Pablo Picasso owns one, and so does Hollywood Director Billy Wilder. Original Thonet rockers sell nowadays for between $75 and $185 (depending on state of repair and elegance of design) in Manhattan antiqueries, sold for much more until imports of them from Europe began to flood the U.S. market two years...