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...mouth that seems always on the verge of an indecent proposal, must have been told she could be the next Grace Kelly. Don Siegel, who makes diamond-hard action movies, has always wanted to direct an elegant, light-fingered comedy like the Grant-Kelly To Catch a Thief. For all anyone knows, Ernest Borgnine wishes he were Fred Astaire. But wishes aren't horses-and if they were, Rough Cut would be an also...
SHENYANG CITY CRACKS BIG THEFT CASE, blared the front-page headline in the Peking People's Daily. GOLD THIEF EXECUTED. Such lurid stories were once unheard of in China's staid official party newspaper, but recently the People's Daily and other Chinese papers have been publishing accounts of criminal wrongdoing almost daily. Even more unusual, the individuals being fingered in the press are ranking government and party officials. Reports TIME Peking Bureau Chief Richard Bernstein: "The fact that they are now being publicly denounced on the country's front pages indicates that the top leadership...
...crimes charged to Communist cadres show how easily officials have been able to use their power not only to violate the law but also to avoid punishment. For example, as head of the planning section of a factory in the northeast city of Shenyang, Guan Qingchong, the gold thief mentioned in the People's Daily, was able some 19 years ago to make off with 806 oz. of industrial gold. Ever since then, he had got steady promotions, while two provincial leaders had been hounded to suicide after being falsely accused of the crime. Guan's undoing came...
...department had reacted unprofessionally to the widespread looting. Several policemen walked into a shopping center parking lot at around 11:30 p.m. and systematically smashed the windshields of 14 unoccupied cars with billy clubs, rifle butts and pieces of pipe. They slashed tires and spray-paint-ed LOOTER, THIEF and I AM A CHEAP NO GOOD LOOTER on the vehicles. Claimed Joe Sheely, 26, a resident of the neighborhood: "They were getting a kick out of it." Four Miami police officers were suspended from duty for the vandalism, and Miami Mayor Maurice Ferre declared, "It burns the hell...
...lovely little English films (notably The 39 Steps in 1935 and The Lady Vanishes in 1938) gradually became more subdued, replaced first by the broody romanticism of movies such as Rebecca (1940) and Notorious (1946), then by the assured slickness of Rear Window (1954), To Catch a Thief (1955) and North by Northwest (1959). It was in the middle of that last group that, in two superb, underrated films, The Wrong Man (1957) and Vertigo (1958), he directly, quite humorlessly, confronted his belief that injustice will be done and that nothing is what it seems to be. Psycho...