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...What are the rules? The ranking goes like this: first place, Palme d'Or; second place, Grand Jury Prize; third place, Jury Prize. The Jury may also bestow awards for Director, Screenplay, Actor and Actress. A separate commission votes a prize for Superior Technique. Yet another group chooses the Camera d'Or for best first feature - one of the few awards with monetary value: about...
...first actress I think of to voice a massive amphibious mammal...
Like Nixon, Morrow sometimes lets his own internal monologue loose. He spends five puzzling pages comparing Nixon to the actress and sex-symbol Lana Turner, of all people, arguing that they both “were isolated, manipulative, calculating, detached.” Even Morrow acknowledges that the overlong exercise is “on the face of it, a preposterous and frivolous comparison,” and the narrative flow, which is interrupted by a mini-biography of Turner, would have benefited from its absence. At times, the book feels more like a biographical pastiche of famous figures rather...
She’s an aging actress with a loud voice who never quite made it anywhere on Broadway and settled into a life of teaching theater to small-town bumpkins like me. But in the land of the blind, the one-eyed brassy broad is queen, I suppose, because we naïve little actor-types just worshipped her. Part of Frances’s mystique was her past contact with a special subset of actors to which Lithgow, this year’s Harvard Commencement speaker, belongs...
...strippers and the driver arrive in two SUVs. Drivers always accompany the women on their jobs, not just getting them there but acting as handlers once they arrive. Tonight, the driver, a huge, bald man in a black windbreaker, will play stage crew to the stripper’s actress, making sure the lights are dim, collecting the night’s fees, and breaking twenties into ones for easy tipping...