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...giants as Humphrey Bogart, John Wayne, James Cagney and Gary Cooper, matched with sexy, strong-willed Hawksian discoveries such as Lauren Bacall, Rita Hayworth, Carole Lombard and Jane Russell. When French cineasts made a cult of the tall, quiet director, claiming for example that he "incarnates the classic American cinema," Hawks commented: "I get open-mouthed and wonder where they find some of the stuff they say about me. All I'm doing is telling a story...
Close Encounters of The Third Kind Written and directed by Steven Spielberg Sack Cinema...
...Rafah, in the Sinai, on military duty. On July 23 he came home unexpectedly. I knew he didn't have a leave coming, and I asked him why he was in Cairo. He told me he wanted to give me a holiday, and took me to the cinema. When we returned home, the porter handed me a card that had been left by Colonel Nasser. It said 'Our project is on for tonight.' My husband said nothing, but he immediately put on his uniform. I knew that something big and dangerous was about to happen...
...transformed into a feast, a torn newspaper enjoyed a new career as a lace tablecloth. Such lyric moments lifted Chaplin to pantheon status. He became the friend of kings and critics. Einstein sought him out; Churchill praised him. George Bernard Shaw called him "the one genius created by the cinema." Millionaires welcomed Charlie into their homes and their ranks...
DIED. Sir Charles Chaplin, 88, comic genius; of old age; in Vevey, Switzerland (see CINEMA...