Word: film
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...week asserting: "We think it is unconscionable for anyone to hoard several billion, yes billion, dollars worth of silver and thus drive the price up so high that others must pay artificially high prices for articles made of silver from baby spoons to tea sets, as well as photographic film and other products...
very nearly as primal as she was at 20, when she made her film debut in To Have and Have Not. This time, in a thriller called The Fan, being shot in New York City's theater district, Bacall is an aging actress embarking on her first musical, bothered by a psychotic admirer, Michael Biehn, 23, who begins with fan letters, moves on to erotic notes and finally threatens the lady's life. "It's a wonderful part," says Bacall. "One of the best offered to me in a long time." Is there any connection...
DIED. Dick Haymes, 64, buttery-voiced baritone and film star who sang with some of the finest of the swing era's Big Bands (including Tommy Dorsey's and Benny Goodman's), married often (six wives, including Rita Hayworth) and was probably known best for his renditions of songs like It Might as Well Be Spring; of lung cancer; in Los Angeles...
...SEEM to have passed the anti-hero phase in Hollywood. Dustin Hoffman has abandoned Benjamin Braddock and Ratso Rizzo for Ted Kramer. Even in "B" films like American Gigolo, the misfit hero is not glorified for his sins at the finale but redeemed, primped for "normal" society. But Wise Blood is not a Hollywood film, nor is it about normal society. In Huston's hands, Hazel Motes becomes not a hero or an anti-hero but a non-hero, one of us living out the internal battle between Jesus and Satan...
...most remarkable aspect of the film is the simple way Huston and Fitzgerald have translated O'Connor's work to the screen. It works as if the novella had been the treatment for a screenplay. Like O'Connor, they make these characters seem natural when, in fact, they are grossly unnatural. When Haze wraps himself in barbed wire, a sequence that is at first horrifying becomes tender and comic because these characters really breathe, bleed and smile. Fitzgerald even allows some of O'Connor's imagery to creep into the dialogue when Enoch describes a woman with "hair so thin...