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...many U.S. companies, the annual stockholders' meeting in recent years has become a raucous cross between a stage show and a shouting match. Profanity and horn honking disrupted Communications Satellite Corp.'s session last month. President Darryl F. Zanuck had to outshout hecklers-one of whom came dressed as Cleopatra-at the 20th Century-Fox Films meeting, and shareowners peppered management of the A. & P. with a talkathon that included a suggestion that it make cottage cheese easier to find in its stores. Usually armed with a little bit of stock and a lot of cheek, professional scolds...
...Darryl Zanuck's The Longest Day has been running for more than 14 months, and it appears to be the biggest moneymaking black-and-white picture in history. Its worldwide gross was $25,275,000 in its first year; and by last week the figure had climbed to more than $27 million. The film's original cost was $10 million...
...both in image and in action. Never for an instant does it whirl along on wings of epic elan; generally it just bumps from scene to ponderous scene on the square wheels of exposition. Part of what is wrong went wrong in the cutting room, and for that Darryl Zanuck, boss of 20th Century-Fox, is possibly to blame. But much of what is wrong was wrong in the script, and for that Chief Scenarist Mankiewicz must wear the ears. Part One seems on the whole a competent and entertaining picture, but in Part Two, Mankiewicz goes wildly wrong...
...Darryl Zanuck, president of 2Oth Century-Fox, is pleased with them. "I think the Taylor-Burton association is quite constructive for our organization," he says. But what if the Taylor-Burton association were to collapse before Cleopatra opens? The picture would be an anachronism while it is still...
...demote D.Z. Darryl Zanuck is the president of 20th Century-Fox, not a producer. Your photograph [March i] shows him approving the shooting of the scenes that Producer Walter Wanger and Director Joseph L. Mankiewicz were restrained from doing properly by a former management and that are now being sponsored by the new president...