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Having enjoyed Leone's Dollars Trilogy, Grey finally responded and agreed to meet with Leone at a Manhattan bar. [12] Following that initial meeting, Leone met with Grey several times throughout the remainder of the 1960s and 1970s, having discussions with him to understand America through Grey's point of view. [13] [14]
Leone's film elicited a legal challenge from the Japanese director, though Kurosawa's film was, in turn, probably based on the 1929 Dashiell Hammett novel, Red Harvest. A Fistful of Dollars is also notable for establishing Clint Eastwood as a star. [17] Until that time, Eastwood had been an American television actor with few credited film roles.
Leone said he cast Claudia Cardinale in part because she was an Italian national and, as such, they could get a tax break. [13] Leone wanted the three men who ambush Harmonica and are subsequently killed to be played by Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, and Eli Wallach in a symbolic killing of the Dollars Trilogy which Leone wanted to put behind ...
The Dollars Trilogy spawned a series of spin-off books focused on the Man with No Name, dubbed the Dollars series due to the common theme in their titles: A Fistful of Dollars (1972), film novelization by Frank Chandler; For a Few Dollars More (1965), film novelization by Joe Millard; The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1967), film novelization by ...
The company was founded by Henry Jarvis Raymond and George Jones in New York City. The first edition of the newspaper The New York Times, published on September 18, 1851, stated: "We publish today the first issue of the New-York Daily Times, and we intend to issue it every morning (Sundays excepted) for an indefinite number of years to come."
Roger Greenspun (December 16, 1929 – June 18, 2017) was an American journalist and film critic, best known for his work with The New York Times in which he reviewed near 400 films, particularly in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and for Penthouse for which he was the film critic throughout much of the late 1970s and 1980s.
In 1997, Golden was elected to the board of directors of The New York Times Company, and named vice chairman in October of that year. In November 2003, Golden was named publisher of the International Herald Tribune. From 1967, the International New York Times was published as the International Herald Tribune and was renamed on October 15, 2013.
Duck, You Sucker! (Italian: Giù la testa, lit."Duck Your Head", "Get Down"), also known as A Fistful of Dynamite and Once Upon a Time ... the Revolution, is a 1971 epic Zapata Western film directed and co-written by Sergio Leone and starring Rod Steiger, James Coburn, and Romolo Valli.