Word: cinemae
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...Cinema...
...Woman of Affairs, "my kind of love." Her films, from Flesh and the Devil to The Mysterious Lady, from Anna Christie to Anna Karenina, were a master course in the varieties of that kind of love: desperate, consuming, exalted. They were also lessons in her kind of star acting. Cinema would never again see its like...
...Cinema...
...around -- the news that Hollywood needed somebody to write the words for talking pictures. And it stayed around -- the contempt for self and cinema that Mankiewicz's cable winks at. How could one be paid so much to have one's literature ground into pulp by the coarse merchants who ran the movies? In the '30s and '40s a few screenwriters, pre-eminently Preston Sturges, seized the means of production and became their own directors. The rest mostly complained about their six-figure serfdom, partly because they were so good at it. "It is as difficult to make a toilet...
...Cinema...