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...mass audience has paid scant attention to films about the Irish Troubles, but this one may find friends precisely because it renounces political nuance for emotional bullying and old Hollywood-style blarney. The movie's forebears are '30s Warner Bros. melodramas like Kid Galahad (a fighter and his trainer KO the crooks) and Angels with Dirty Faces (the Dead End Kids learn who's the real tough guy). The Boxer could even be a Going My Way without priests--it's that hokey...
...United States, and I expected there would be some of the same because I was an immigrant. And there wasn't." From his spot in a cramped one-bedroom apartment in Brooklyn, where he was housed by an aunt and uncle who had left Hungary in the '30s, Grove devoured Eisenhower's America...
DIED. TAMARA GEVA, 91, witty Russian ballerina-actress; in New York City. Geva, just shy of 16, married the choreographer George Balanchine, becoming, as her autobiography Split Seconds put it, "the first Galatea to his Pygmalion." She set aside dancing in the '30s to act and later starred in George Bernard Shaw's Misalliance...
Reasons to Move There: Trophy bass in Dripping Springs Lake, trophy pies at the Pecan Festival. The town is watching The Grapes of Wrath in reverse as Okies from California--whose families left here in the Dust Bowl '30s--come streaming home...
TRUE, OR POSSIBLY FALSE. But this is the fourth time in a row that I have made a film that (rightly or wrongly) has been called the most expensive film ever made. In any event, many of our favorite epics from the '30s, '40s and '50s would cost more than Titanic if made today...