Word: film
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Rome's Cinecitta film complex, craftsmen are putting the finishing touches on an 18-ft., 550-lb. plaster statue of a male nude who could be a cousin of Michelangelo's David. From the neck up it is David-David Niven, that is. Niven has never seen the colossus, which is intended for his aptly titled film The Statue. His features were copied from photos. But he has learned that it deviates in one significant way from the prototype. "The statue has a fig leaf," the actor notes. "And quite a large...
...withdrawing from the Curious (Yellow) cases, Justice Douglas avoided involvement in a court-splitting headache. Indeed, the film has already split courts across the country. It has been shown m more than 125 communities without legal challenge; courts from New Jersey to New Mexico have approved it. But other judges, in such places as Boston, Baltimore, Kansas City...
Immoral and Illicit. More than a year ago, the U.S. Court of Appeals in New York ruled that the film could be imported into the country. Judge Henry Friendly admitted that "a truly pornographic film would not be rescued by inclusion of a few verses from the Psalms." But Friendly found "a connection between the serious purpose and the sexual episodes...
...contrast, the Maryland Court of Appeals ruled Curious obscene on the ground that the unsexy parts "seem a contrived ruse to give the movie social value." Phoenix Superior Court Judge Paul W. La Prade was even more critical. In his December decision banning the film, he insisted that it "has no plot, no economic message and no religious dogma. Its only message is immoral copulation, public fornication and illicit habits...
Visiting with Charles Eames evokes a kaleidoscope of images rather than words: he defies labeling. Eames is the designer and architect, the artist and film-maker, the scientist and philosopher. Perhaps the connection is his gift as problem-solver- whether it's in designing a computer exhibit for the new IBM building or in joining a metal support to the back of a chair...