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...Australian scientist David Warren was investigating the crash of a De Havilland Comet in India. Warren couldn't determine the cause of the accident - in which the jet went down six minutes after takeoff, killing all 43 people onboard - because there wasn't any useful information preserved in the crash. Over the next few years, he developed a prototype for a flight-memory recorder that would track basic information like altitude and direction. Encased in asbestos and metal, the data and sound recorder was nicknamed the "black box," after the general term for a seemingly magical gadget that...
...Hollywood studios what cattle are to ranchers: they were bound to multi-year, exclusive contracts, unable to choose their own films, their own career paths or, in some cases, their own relationships. Actors were essentially the studios' property, and anyone who dared protest - Bette Davis and Olivia de Havilland, for example - was suspended, effectively blacklisted for a time. The first SAG-studio contract was signed in 1937, but it was only following the Supreme Court's 1948 anti-trust decision against Paramount Studios, which broke the studio monopoly, that actors were set loose. Two years later, Jimmy Stewart negotiated...
...warm woods "that came from a friend of Paul's in South Carolina named Bucky," Nischan says. "We call it Bucky-board." And the place may be new, but it's made to feel lived-in: the Bucky-board is adorned with posters advertising long-past productions?"Olivia de Havilland (in person) in Sir James M. Barrie's Classic Comedy What Every Woman Knows"?like family mementos in the home of a very thespian clan. In the bathroom, you'll find copies of LIFE magazine from the 1950s...
...warm woods "that came from a friend of Paul's in South Carolina named Bucky," Nischan says. "We call it Bucky-board." And the place may be new, but it's made to feel lived-in: the Bucky-board is adorned with posters advertising long-past productions - "Olivia de Havilland (in person) in Sir James M. Barrie's Classic Comedy What Every Woman Knows" - like family mementos in the home of a very thespian clan. In the bathroom, you'll find copies of Life magazine from the 1950s. The menu reflects Newman and Nischan's shared passion for organic...
...Someone had to break this monopoly, and it wasn't a movie tough guy or tart. Olivia de Havilland, yet another Warners contract artist, had specialized in doe-eyed darlings, notably as Melanie in Gone With the Wind- again, a loan-out, this time to the Selznick Studio. And again, she wanted to expand her range. When Warners kept casting her in all-sugar, no-spice roles, de Havilland balked and was suspended. She then challenged the studio in court, arguing that since the period of suspension was routinely added to the length of the contract, an actor...