Word: schiller
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...difficult to tell entirely whether Mailer or various tape recorders are to be congratulated for The Executioner's Song. Mailer seems to have undertaken the project mostly for money. He never met Gilmore but acquired an immense pile of tapes from a hustler named Larry Schiller, the entrepreneur who had earlier promoted deals involving Jack Ruby, Marilyn Monroe and Susan Atkins of the Manson gang. Mailer spent additional weeks interviewing Gilmore's family, his girlfriend Nicole Barrett, and surrounding bit players...
...Unmarried Woman: Aspects of Spinsterhood in Ante-Bellum New England--Lee Chambers--Schiller, associate professor of History, University of Colorado, Agassiz House...
...actress in the world," though Siobhan McKenna would be my own choice. Still, Worth is indisputably in the top handful, and I have never found her less than impressive whether in classical or modern drama. The performances that she and Eva Le Gallienne gave in the 1957 production of Schiller's Mary Stuart are two of the half dozen supreme feats I have seen an actress achieve on stage...
...live the life of a new celebrity, instead subsisting mostly on Social Security in a transient hotel in San Francisco's notorious Tenderloin district. Since his last wife died in 1974, Nyiregyházi has been a virtual recluse. A hard drinker and heavy thinker (Shakespeare and Schiller are familiars), he is as profligate with money as with matrimony. "Of course financial trouble is never welcome," he says. "But I never regarded concertizing as a glorious occupation. I always preferred music as a way of life, not as a profession...
...among Italians in his territory. But the breakup of the old Italian neighborhoods has stripped away his social functions?and any romanticism that might have surrounded him. Today he is no more than a hoodlum who has reached the top by outwitting, frightening, maiming or killing his rivals. Says Schiller: "We are dealing here with brutality and inhumanity beyond belief...