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...houseman came to work and discovered the film director's body lying faceup on the floor. When the police arrived an hour later, they found Taylor's Los Angeles bungalow swarming with reporters and souvenir hunters. The press made much of reports that Mabel Normand, the heroine of Mack Sennett's Keystone Kops comedies, was seen rummaging through desk drawers in search of her old love letters. A Paramount executive was sitting in front of the fireplace burning papers. A man claiming to be a doctor examined the corpse and announced that Taylor had died of a stomach hemorrhage. Only...
...even something for the odd adult here: a dreamily delicate performance by George Gaynes as the academy's superintendent, a man whose mind went AWOL a couple of decades back. In other words, Police Academy's gains at the box office are not entirely ill gotten. Mack Sennett would have understood them...
Film Historian Ted Sennett has brought together almost 400 stills, from The Birth of a Nation to E.T., to illustrate his selection of Hollywood's "great" films, Readers may quarrel with some selections in Great Hollywood Movies (Abrams; 304 pages; $49.50) "and wonder why other films were left out, but no one can argue with the wonderful, and often provocative, pictures that Sennett has lovingly collected...
...Sunset Boulevard. Others come as welcome surprises. There is a very young (26) Gary Cooper making an early film appearance in Wings (1927), and in a still from The Picture of Dorian Gray, we finally see what Dorian's naughty escapades did to that portrait in his attic. Sennett has the perhaps obligatory shot of James Cagney pushing a grapefruit in Mae Clarke's face from The Public Enemy, for example, but he also reproduced the film's less familiar last scene: Cagney's dead body lying at his brother's feet. Such surprises...
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