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Mounted on a white steed, Bridegroom Mohammed rode at dawn to the portal of Salama's palace. He was preceded by a caravan of 20 camels laden with trunks of diamonds, emeralds and rubies. If these gifts seemed mere baubles to the bride, it was because her father Sheik Hamdan had given her an entire town with three skyrise apartment buildings, a luxury hotel and 55 shops and boutiques...
...plaza they put dynamite in the mouth of one miner and blew him to pieces . . . They whipped children with cables and made them eat gun powder. They made young people lie down on broken glass and forced us to walk over them; afterwards the soldiers marched over them. At dawn, on Tuesday, Agust 5, they loaded the dead and wounded into three army trucks headed for La Paz . . . About 900 people disappeared, the dead, wounded and prisoners...
Romero also traveled the commercial route to independence, with low-budget scare shows that made his name and his fortune: Dawn of the Dead, the 1979 sequel to his cult classic, Night of the Living Dead, has earned $55 million worldwide. The audience reaction to Romero's perfervid shockers has always been poised between a scream and a giggle. Now, with Knightriders, Romero has taken a bigger risk: he blends Arthurian legend with modern-day bikers-Excalibur meets Easy Rider-and dares the audience to laugh at the noble exploits of working-class jousters. The Camelot caravan juggles lofty...
...another sense, Polyester is like all independent films. Whether the director has reformist ideals or dreams of big bucks, whether his mogul is an arts council functionary or a local businessman looking for a tax write-off, the game of scrounging and scrambling must be played. Dawn of the Dead and The Dark End of the Street jump the same financial hurdles. Making movies and Making It may be, finally, the same thing. And sometimes It pays off. More than a few members of the New Hollywood elite-David Lynch (The Elephant Man), John Carpenter (Halloween), Martin Brest (Going...
...common vulnerability to luck's weird and endlessly inventive impulses. Hook thinks that chastening drama might make people more charitable toward one another. Well-if we are lucky. But perhaps luck, good and bad, also has a deeper physiological purpose, programmed into the human animal in the first dawn of his intelligence: to keep the adrenaline flowing, maybe, and the brain alert to the world's epic of apprehension, terror, greed and hope. Perhaps luck is the way that life puts history into bas-relief, and differentiates moments, and people: the way that the universe punctuates time...