Word: wising
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dewitt breathed a sigh of relief. It was The Philadelphia Story (Harvard Film Archive), the charming, wise, funny classic that gives the lie to W.C. Fields' famous epitaph. One look at the cast--Katherine Hepburn, Cary Grant, and Jimmy Stewart--just about says it all; but when you figure in the top-notch script and director George Cukor's subtle direction, you have one of Hollywood's few truly timeless jobs...
Rutger Fury, SWM with fondness for pina coladas and pets, is a close personal friend of Jeffrey J. Wise...
Rutger Fury, a former national political correspondent for The National Enquirer and bouncer at the Hard Rock Cafe, is a close confidante of Jeffery J. Wise...
...along the way. Especially notable are David Schrag's portrayal of Hugo, the snide and arrogant eldest son; Bill Salloway as the confused but moral police inspector who tries to sort out the Charles family; and Donal Logue as the "Buddhist skinhead" and youngest son. Donald Carleton plays the wise-cracking butler, and despite his occasionally stilted delivery he often brings down the house because Idle has given him the best lines...
...problem. Hughes spent ten years on The Fatal Shore. "It was a constant tap dance between the magazine and the book," says he. Friedrich worked weekends for four years to finish City of Nets. Senior Editor Walter Isaacson labored late at night and during weeks off on The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made (Simon & Schuster), a chronicle of the U.S. foreign policy establishment co-with former Associate Editor Evan Thomas. "Even so," says Isaacson, "it took three years...