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...same time, it raised serious questions about the Cambridge quintet that had risen to the top of the local charts...
...start down you know that that is the very top of where you are going." Comic Actor Kaye, 71, shared the pinnacle moment last week in Washington with Singer Lena Home, 67, Opera Composer Gian Carlo Menotti, 73, Playwright Arthur Miller, 69, and Violinist Isaac Stern, 64. The quintet were receiving this year's Kennedy Center Honors for lifetime achievement in the arts. They join a select company of only 30 other recipients...
Greg Wildes, Pat Smith and Keith Webster currently round out the starting quintet, whose scoring production last year was tops in the leisure...
...movie theaters, after 20 years in distribution limbo. Constituting the best and the least of Hitchcock's work during his most productive decade (1948-58), the "forbidden five" are once again demonstrating their director's box-office magnetism. Rear Window (1954), the first of the quintet to be rereleased, has earned $6.8 million in just five months, and Vertigo (1958) has taken in more than $3 million since the end of December. The Trouble with Harry (1955) has just opened to good business, and similar grosses are expected for Rope (1948) and The Man Who Knew Too Much...
...risky for a viewer to sweep too many thematic generalizations into this dusty pile of celluloid. Indeed, a cynic would declare that the only thing this quintet has in common is Hitchcock's greed. The film maker always had an acute eye for commerce. He worked in an economically reliable genre with the industry's biggest stars. He would agree to dump a longtime collaborator like Composer Bernard Herrmann (who worked on eight Hitchcock films from 1955 to 1964) if the studio applied pressure. And when asked why he withheld these five films from theaters...