Word: films
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Americans, the world's judgment seems to be rigged up to a perverse double standard. Let only a rumor waft through, a propagandist's mischievous fantasy about the CIA's organizing the attack on the Sacred Mosque at Mecca, and rioters swarm like film extras against U.S. consulates from Turkey to India; in Islamabad, Pakistan, two Americans die and the embassy goes up in flames. Let the U.S. admit the deposed Shah for temporary medical treatment, and the Tehran embassy, with all occupants, becomes the property of overheated Shi'ite gunmen. But let four Soviet divisions...
MARRIED. Margaux Hemingway, 24, occasional actress; and French-born Film Maker Bernardo Foucher, 40; she for the second time, he for the fourth; in Margaux's native Ketchum, Idaho...
...traditional costumes, and-most of all-made the great cats of Africa her friends. No lion on earth ever became more famous than Elsa, the cub that Adamson reared from infancy and then painstakingly trained to return to the wild. Through her book Born Free, its sequels and the film, Adamson made her lioness as popular and familiar as Lassie. Feeding the tiny cub with a baby bottle, pushing her on a homemade swing, nuzzling her with fearless affection, Adamson seemed more mother than keeper...
...conductor's film credits include "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," "The Towering Inferno." "The Fury," "Superman," "Jane Eyre," and "Dracula." Williams also has composed many classical works...
What's even more troublesome is the way director Robert Moore chooses to transform Simon's play into film. It's obvious Chapter Two was a play first, because virtually all of the heavy dialogue takes place in one room. The camera moves aimlessly from corner to corner, without knowing where to focus after a while. And when Caan and Mason aren't thrashing out all of the problems in their stalemate of a marriage, there's no action to speak of, only snapshots of the honeymoon couple in Bermuds...