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DIED. LEW AYRES, 88, actor; in Los Angeles. In a career spanning six decades, he starred in All Quiet on the Western Front, played opposite Greta Garbo and portrayed Dr. Kildare in the MGM film series. During World War II, Ayres provoked an outcry by declining combat duty. (He served as a medic and chaplain's aide.) Weathering the controversy, he went on to receive an Oscar nomination for his role in Johnny Belinda...
...grow up to 13 m, with tentacles as long as a city bus and eyeballs the size of a human head shouldn't be that hard to find. But scientists have never caught a glimpse of a live giant squid in the wild. The cephalopod's reign as the Greta Garbo of the undersea world, however, is over: last week two Japanese scientists?Tsunemi Kubodera and Kyoichi Mori?published the first photographs of a giant squid in action, captured by a robotic camera 900 m below the surface of the Pacific Ocean. For obsessive squid hunters, it's the scientific...
Monday, Oct. 3—Wednesday, Oct. 19. Greta Garbo Centennial Celebration...
...series of some of Greta Garbo’s most popular and most glamorous films, including timeless classics “Ninotchka” and “Grand Hotel.” Brattle Theater. $9. Tickets available at theater or www.brattlefilm.org...
...could have that effect on a generation unused to her and the conventions that then bound Hollywood. Her gestures may seem extravagant to eyes tutored in naturalism, her characters too ready to renounce passion for the sake of propriety. Yet in her day she was a revolutionary. Born Greta Gustafsson to a poor Stockholm family on Sept. 18, 1905, she was only 19 when she arrived at MGM (her only American movie home). Yet with her long, thin face and magnetic gravitas, she was already eerily mature. From the beginning in movies she was the older woman, setting the rules...