Show Business: The Brain In Spain

MOVIE PRODUCERS In his own inner eye, Producer Samuel Bronston sees himself as a kind of extraspectacular Cecil B. De Mille. He is earnestly trying to promote that notion, splash by splash. And he seems to be succeeding.

In order to understand this basic drive, it is not necessary to go back to his youth as a Russian emigre flute player educated at the Sorbonne, or to indicate that he is a stocky fellow with Napoleonic tendencies. It is only necessary to say that he is an opportunist, with an eye that...

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