Word: film
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cuts. The installations, which resemble small, domed astronomical observatories, will be equipped with two powerful 101-cm (40-in.) telescopes and a smaller 38-cm (15-in.) auxiliary telescope. As the instruments scan the skies, the images they capture will be focused onto sensitive photo-imaging tubes rather than film. An outgrowth of the military's night-vision devices, these tubes convert even the faintest flickers of light into electronic impulses, which are then fed into computers. There GEODSS performs its real prestidigitation. It separates from the myriad stars in the background any tiny man-made objects passing into...
DIED. Jay Anson, 58, scriptwriter whose allegedly factual 1977 thriller, The Amityville Horror, about a family's experiences in a haunted house on New York's Long Island, sold millions of copies before being made into a film last year; after heart surgery; in Palo Alto, Calif...
...homosexual "leather" bars that cater to macho style and sadomasochistic taste. Along with some bathhouses, sex-gadget shops, magazines and private clubs, they make an increasingly visible subculture in the gay world. That leather fringe is now also visible on movie screens, as the backdrop for a film that has been denounced and picketed by homosexuals: William Friedkin's Cruising, the story of a gay murderer in New York City...
...marker, of dubious value. The marker in this case is the horseplayer's six-year-old daughter (ah, so, thinks the alert viewer, past whom no subtlety can be slipped, that's what the film's title means). Sorrowful does not deal in human flesh but just now he is distracted; a dim-witted killer named Blackie (Tony Curtis) is trying to muscle him into investing in a gambling casino...
Every time they film Little Miss Marker (the 1934 original, with Shirley Temple and Adolphe Menjou, a remake in 1949 called Sorrowful Jones, with Bob Hope, and another in 1963 called 40 Pounds of Trouble, with Tony Curtis in the Matthau role), there is a soggy moment when some of the air goes out of the farce. No getting around it; the despairing horseplayer must come to grief, because if he doesn't, Sorrowful won't have $10 worth of the live marker, who seems to have no real name and is always referred...