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...editors rewrote his copy into Time-speak, with its backward-running sentences, space-saving but eye-irritating ampersands ("now & then"), capitalized job designations and film references shoved in as nicknames - "Director Elia (Gentleman's Agreement) Kazan" - often with the job title crushed into a compound cuteism ("Cinemactor Sessue Hayakawa," "Cinemogul Darryl F. Zanuck"). I assumed that, when Manny left the place, he felt well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Manny Farber: Termite of Genius | 8/26/2008 | See Source »

...Hollywood's heyday the films were only celluloid, but the cinemas that showed them were marbled citadels of fantasy and opulence. From coast to coast, Paramounts and Paradises, Orpheums and Roxys enfolded audiences in some of the most exuberantly romantic architecture ever conceived in the U.S. As Cinemogul Marcus Loew insisted, "We sell tickets to theaters, not movies." Indeed, from their razzle-dazzle marquees to their wondrous Wurlitzers, from soaring, Sistine ceilings to ankle-deep carpeting, the great old houses were themselves worth the price of admission...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Lighting the Darkened Palaces | 5/5/1980 | See Source »

Such mainstays of the vernacular as tycoon, kudos, pundit and socialite all gained currency from their use in TIME. Our movie reviewers borrowed cinema from the French-and played numerous variations on the theme with cinemactor, cinemactress, cinemoppet, cinemogul. The word newsmagazine was a TIME creation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Oct. 19, 1970 | 10/19/1970 | See Source »

Married. Laurence Harvey, 40, the movies' handsome heel (Room at the Top, Darling); and Joan Cohn, 54, widow of Cinemogul Harry Cohn, ex-wife of Shoe Manufacturer Harry Karl, and Laurence's constant companion for the past eight years; he for the second time (he was divorced by British Actress Margaret Leighton in 1961), she for the third; in Nassau...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Oct. 25, 1968 | 10/25/1968 | See Source »

Married. Billy Rose, 65, Broadway showman who, as the largest individual owner of A. T. & T. (80,000 shares worth some $11 million), now spends almost as much time reading the Wall Street Journal as he does Variety; and Doris Warner Vidor, 48, daughter of the late cinemogul Harry Warner; she for the third time, he for the fifth; in Montego Bay, Jamaica...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Mar. 13, 1964 | 3/13/1964 | See Source »

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