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Many of the drawings explore the difference, or lack thereof, between humans ans animals. In the drawings, "Hardly Walking Any More, Not Flying YEt" (1927), Klee depicts a creature that is half man, half bird. The loose, sweeping lines surrounding the figure suggest wings and feathers...
ACTOR BRANDON LEE HAD HOPED TO RIDE THE CROW, his third significant Hollywood film, to stardom. Instead it was a bird of ill omen. A storm destroyed sets; a carpenter was nearly electrocuted. Then during Wednesday's filming, a gun that should have shot blanks apparently fired something that passed through Lee's abdomen and lodged next to his spine, killing him. "I don't know how it got in ((the gun))," said The Crow's executive producer of the projectile, later identified as a .44-cal. bullet...
...boyhood baseball hobby died out, but Shapiro, like many others, rediscovered it in adulthood. The original attraction in his case was the Baltimore Orioles of the late 1970s. Now Shapiro is more Bird-brained than ever, since Baltimore has erected the neo-nostalgic Camden Yards field, which he saluted in his last baseball opus for TIME...
...disappear as well. Local affiliate stations, which have the exclusive right to pick up network shows and distribute them to viewers in their localities, would seem to have no function -- except as suppliers of local news and other community-based programming. The video store may be another dodo bird. When any Hollywood release can be called up instantly on the home screen, a cumbersome system in which people have to trek to the corner video store to rent a tape, then return it a day later, seems like a low-tech anachronism. Film studios might even release a major movie...
...compared to Bird, however. This dense but compelling biography of the saxophone player Charlie Parker disappeared without a ripple after its release in 1990. It was Eastwood's most ambitious and uncompromising effort as a director, shot at length in murky, natural light. If Bird established that Eastwood was willing to take chances behind the camera, White Hunter, Black Heart proved he was willing to take huge and potentially embarrassing risks as an actor. His portrayal of a film director modeled on John Huston was as removed from the characters his public had come to expect as Orson Welles...