Word: film
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...pictures these days. She has her gravy and can eat it already. The paperback rights of Return to Peyton Place were worth $265,000 in the hand to her, plus the not inconsiderable amount 20th Century-Fox and I have paid her for the film rights...
...bawdyhouse from Macao to Marseilles. Late in 1932, he joined the Royal Hong Kong Volunteers to fight the Japanese in Shanghai, deserted when the going got tough. Eventually he got to London alive, landed a job in a provincial repertory group, later a bit part in a British film...
Joker & Braggart. In 1935 at the age of 26, Errol Flynn leaped spectacularly into the public eye in Captain Blood, and was well away on a film career that made him a sort of "rich man's Roy Rogers" whose color spectacles were almost as popular as the off-color spectacle of his private life. The lusty, naive young knockabout from New Guinea became the bored Mocambohemian. "The Baron," as his buddies called him, built the usual $125,000 mansion and kept a yacht, filled both of them with "roisterers, fun guys, rompers" and the sort of girls they...
...fugues, one of them built on the name and the four notes B-A-C-H.* Throughout, Busoni gradually modernized his musical vocabulary, ending with a style marked by thick, dissonant clusters of notes. The effect, as presented by Dutch Pianist Petri, is a little like watching a nature film in which plants miraculously blossom and grow before the viewer's eyes. Amazingly, Busoni's collection of twigs and branches emerges looking like a single plant...