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...CINEMA...
...difference between the fiction of Coketown and the reality of Darlaston is that "you saw nothing in Coketown but what was severely workful." At Rubery Owen, an average workday seems more like a raucous political convention−or a cinema verite version of the 1959 Peter Sellers movie, I'm All Right, Jack. Shop stewards and managers alike frequently spend half of their day on labor disputes, but because the men do not actually leave the plant, these countless lost hours are not even logged among the 70,000 man-days the company now loses a year...
...exorcised this titled vampire long ago. Instead, Count Dracula has become the Western world's most durable ghoul. There are Dracula dolls, songs, comic books and histories-proving the existence of a 15th century tyrant dubbed Dracul (dragon). Vampire movies have been made almost since the dawn of cinema and, according to Editor Leonard Wolf, there are now more than 200 Draculoid film titles, ranging from the silent Nosferatu to the ethnic exploitation flick Blackula...
...forces me to abandon my vacation spot on Cape Hatteras in favor of the safety of the Allegheny River. Ah, the brilliance of Hollywood! In one short year it has transformed Americans into cowering paranoids whose only security is found in the tenth row of a darkened cinema...
...style that Rona Barrett might envy. Young Judy covers only the childhood of Garland's 47-year-long life and is only about one-fourth as egregious as Anne Edwards' Judy Garland (Simon & Schuster; $9.95). Author Edwards, an English film scenarist, belongs to the Ptolemaic school of cinema biography. In this genre, all global events are subordinated to the subject: "Frances Ethel Gumm, the future Judy Garland, was born on June 10, 1922, about the same time as Benito Mussolini marched on Rome and took up the reins of dictatorship. Not even Ethel in her greatest moments...