Word: hackmans
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Fourteen years ago, Landon formed a support group in Hollywood called LADIES--Life After Divorce Is Eventually Sane--which has helped the exes of Gene Hackman, Leonard Nimoy and Jerry Lewis, among others, survive a breakup. "The public thinks that money makes it different for us," says Landon, "but I've seen firsthand first wives of Oscar winners who moved from mansions to little apartments"--or even, for a while, to their cars...
...play in which he received quite good notices. In 1978 came the movie Superman; he initially thought the role so silly, so beneath theater, that he almost skipped the tryout. Characteristically, he wanted to work hard to do the part right. On the set he approached the veteran Gene Hackman, who was playing Superman's comic-villain archenemy, and asked if he wanted to rehearse. "Not really," said Hackman. Reeve asked, "Mr. Hackman, what was it that attracted you to the role of Lex Luthor?" Hackman answered, "You mean besides the $2 million...
...summer after his sophomore year, Ben-Shachar interviewed employees at all levels of the company and consulted with Harvard Psychology Professor J. Richard Hackman...
...organizational behavior...so as far as I was concerned, I was on virgin territory," he says. "So I relied basically on listening. I just listened to many people and tried to extract the main principles. I [worked according to] trial and error, and through the advice of [Professor] Hackman, I was able to minimize the errors and improve the organization." Ben-Shachar's conclusions yielded "substantial changes" in the organization and, he says, "they were successful...
...editor is in the cutting room, assembling footage, feeling out the rhythm and personality of each scene. What should be emphasized? The editor has infinite options. "In Crimson Tide," says Lebenzon, "there's a scene out in the rain where the guys are being addressed by Gene Hackman for the first time. There was so much film on that and so many ways to go. In a way it was a very traditional General Patton scene, but I slammed into these big close-ups from wide shots. It somehow became very effective at crucial points...