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...fashionable men who had good speaking voices. And Darryl said . . . 'Women love bums!' He took all the heavies; Bogey was a heavy; when he picked Clark Gable, Gable was playing a heavy . . . Richard Widmark . . . was the worst . . . heavy in the world . . . And it's still true. Look at the Burt Reynolds and the Clint Eastwoods and all of that crap coming up. They're all abusive to women." Howard Hawks (To Have and Have Not; Red River) on typecasting: Martha Vickers played a nymphomaniac in The Big Sleep, and the studio signed her to a long-term contract. "She started...
...early success and cumulative sorrows. Hardly a witness to the old days can speak without suppressing a sigh. Judy Garland's ruby slippers from The Wizard of Oz have been auctioned off; stars dim as predictably as sunrise; archetype runs downhill to caricature: Clark Gable is copied by Burt Reynolds who fades into Tom Selleck. Louise Brooks, who seems to have spent her retirement reading, offers the sole consolation. "Proust wrote: 'The only paradise is paradise lost.' Isn't that beautiful?" she asks Kobal. Wisely, he keeps as silent as one of her old films. --By Stefan Kanfer
...Valentino, for example, favored a hyperbolic style, arching the woman back into a circumflex and doing semaphor with his eyebrows. He had the technique of a gifted and tormented periodontist. Nor is it always advisable for amateurs to try to reproduce the unforgettable scenes, like the one in which Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr tumble in the Hawaiian surf in From Here to Eternity. Those who attempt that on Cape Cod arise with abrasions on their shoulders and plankton in their sinuses...
...much imitated grins don't quite match, but they sure go together. Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas first paired up in I Walk Alone, the story of a convict who gets out of prison and discovers a changed world. In the 40 years since, they have been in a play, starred in three more features and done two cameos together. Now they are back in Tough Guys, which finished filming last week in California, and the more things change the more they play the same. The toothy twosome portray--you guessed it--jailbirds who get out of the slammer...
...Rainmaker (1956) and True Grit (1969); of complications from diabetes; in Rancho Mirage, Calif. A moviemaker without eccentricities who could cut a deal as deftly as he cut a film, Wallis hid under his phlegmatic manner a keen intelligence and an uncanny eye for talent. Among his discoveries: Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas and Shirley MacLaine...