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...Terminal, a Steven Spielberg movie due out next summer, Hanks plays a traveler who is stranded at J.F.K. when a coup in his home country renders his passport worthless. At the airport, Hanks' character "is able to experience both the bounty and the falsehood of America," the actor says. The set is a 75,000-sq.-ft. terminal constructed inside a hangar in Palmdale, Calif. "There's a lot of very tasty restaurants in the food-court area," Hanks says. "Have you had Auntie Anne's pretzels yet? They're pretty good." That proves it: even airport food is better...
...uncovers a murder by blowing up his photos, he played sexy scenes with Vanessa Redgrave and helped make Michelangelo Antonioni's film a breakthrough art-house hit. He later became a director of such movies as Just a Gigolo (featuring Marlene Dietrich's last performance) and a reliable character actor in such films as Gladiator and Gangs of New York...
...DIED. KO (BLACKY) SHOU-LIANG, 50, Taiwanese actor and stuntman famous for jumping across the Yellow River and the Great Wall on motorcycles and in cars; in Shanghai. A police spokeswoman said Ko, known for playing triad goons, may have died of an "alcohol-induced asthma attack" after attending three banquets, the Xinhua news agency reported...
...Sweet It was Actor Art Carney was closely identified with the TV sitcom The Honeymooners, as our Milestone on his death noted [Nov. 24]. Eighteen years ago, some early segments of the show were dug out of storage and released. They originally aired from 1952 to 1957, when The Honeymooners was a regular segment on Jackie Gleason's hour-long TV variety show. Our critic described these episodes in a May 13, 1985, report...
...clown, Josh C. Phillips ’07 proved himself a promising actor. Unfortunately, most of his jokes were obscure Elizabethan puns that went over the heads of the audience; a more physical and illustrative reading of some of the sexual jokes, for example, would have put those laughs in the right places. But his unaffected, “What, did I say something funny?” attitude made the jokes that people did get all the more funny...