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...Technicolor films were rare, but studio photographers like Clarence Sinclair Bull snapped vivid publicity shots of the stars in something less than living Ektachrome. In Hollywood Color Portraits (Morrow; 157 pages; $15.95) Cinema Historian John Kobal has collected 74 of these astonishing pictures. Greats from W.C. Fields to Kim Novak are exposed in ways now unthinkable. A blurred, scarlet-toned Liz Taylor sports thick arm hair; a 5 o'clock shadow darkens Cary Grant's cleft chin; Lana Turner's forehead is marred by blemishes; and the Frank Sinatra of 1945 resembles a textbook definition of adenoidal...
...opportunities are certainly there. A ticket to a production at the subsidized National Theatre or Royal Shakespeare Company can cost less than four dollars, with further reductions for students and the unemployed. Fringe companies charge even less. (The luxury in Britain is cinema, not theatre, which costs between five and seven dollars a seat.) Compare Nicholas Nickleby's $100 price tag over here (under commercial management) to the $8 a cheap seat cost across the Atlantic. The difference is not just the result of travel expenses or actors' accomodations; it's the government subsidy that even companies like...
Speaking before an audience that spilled into the aisles of the 120-seat Hilles Library Cinema, Christo described the environmental and political problems hampering several proposed projects. Although Christo plans his works for years before their completion, "each project is a revolution of my expectations," he said...
Valley Curtain and Wrapped Coast--Christo; Hilles Cinema...
Davenport College will present the live band "Cinema" somewhere within their gothic exterior. Georgian Colonial interior confines starting at 9:30 p.m. Admission at both these parties...