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Then came the dark night of Oct. 18, 1964. Sullivan was running late. He flashed the two-minute sign offscreen. Sixty seconds later he held up one finger. Mason, on a roll, furiously responded, "Here's a finger for you!" Next morning the stone-faced master of ceremonies informed the press that he was "sick to my stomach" about Mason's on-camera crudities and canceled the comedian's $45,000 contract. An out-of-court settlement got Jackie back on the show but could not restore his reputation. Says Mason: "All of a sudden people started to think...
...park bench, then discovered that her new friend had Alzheimer's disease. Never mind that the series has stooped to making jokes about Sophia's own near senility; this case of Alzheimer's was so mild that the viewer hardly noticed it before the fellow was whisked offscreen...
...filmmakers' quest for authentic detail provided moments of offscreen drama. Plans to use a Fortune magazine cover in exchange for promotional ads got bogged down when rival Forbes magazine made a similar offer. In the end, Stone stuck with Fortune, but not without miffing Publisher Malcolm Forbes, who politely turned down later requests to use his private yacht. More crucial was the race to finish Wall Street before the looming directors' strike, which was expected this week. Stone mobilized his film forces, switching the last few weeks from twelve- to 14-hour days, and wrapped on July 4, five days...
...40th Cannes Film Festival, the best show is offscreen, as celebs like Princess Di and Supersvelte Liz steal the limelight...
...what her lover Howard Hughes called a "nice set of lavalieres" became queen of costume dramas in the '40s and '50s. For one thing, she became an autobiographer who, in the great tradition, bares just enough to keep it interesting but not enough to worry the censors. Her offscreen memoirs offer a short course in studio politics and a long list of amours, including Hughes, Robert Taylor, Robert Stack, the Shah of Iran's brother, Billy Wilder, Burt Lancaster and, most notably, Aly Kahn ("He didn't take a woman, he tasted and taunted"). In his musical Follies, Stephen Sondheim...