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...Jekyll and Mr Hyde and The Body Snatchers - came to die. "Our place is in a deep cleft of Vaea Mountain, some 600 feet above the sea, embowered in forest, which is our strangling enemy, and which we combat with axes and dollars," he wrote to his friend Sidney Colvin at the British Museum...
...movie version of Earl Derr Biggers' Confucian detective stories had something to offend everyone. Played by the Swedish actor Warner Oland (16 films), then by Missouri's Sidney Toler (22), Charlie spouted fortune-cookie aphorisms and lorded it over his No. 1 son. Toler, shown at right, even had a black man (the gifted Mantan Moreland) for comic relief. Yet there's a pinchpenny gusto and some nifty plot twists to these Monogram studio marvels...
...1960s he specialized in adapting stage works such as West Side Story, The Sound of Music and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, he achieved his greatest glory the previous decade, when he used his background in publicity to craft two glorious Broadway vipers, J.J. Hunsecker (Burt Lancaster) and Sidney Falco (Tony Curtis), for the film Sweet Smell of Success, and wrote Alfred Hitchcock's smartest, snazziest caper, North by Northwest. In 2001 he became the first screenwriter to be awarded an honorary Oscar...
...says Morton Janklow, an attorney-agent who has shepherded such high-price talent as Judith Krantz and Sidney Sheldon. "Political figures don't create big books. Elvis creates big books. Stockman is a bookkeeper, and political figures are not famous for their candor. They're busily engaged in rewriting history...
Looking beyond the current state of measured reconciliation between the president and the Faculty, other measures can be taken to ensure future peace. When Faculty antipathy toward Summers was highest, Skocpol, former Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles, and Pforzheimer University Professor Sidney Verba ’53 offered to form a committee to serve as an intermediary between the president and the Faculty. Unfortunately, the idea was shot down, since many of the Faculty claimed no knowledge of the plan. While not effective as presented, the idea of an intermediary is a positive one. Though Dean...