although his heart was always on view. Scorsese w as scarcely less surprising, with a literary adaptation of Edith Wharton’s “The Age of Innocence,” a study of behavior in New York society of a century ago, which was scarcely what we expected from the director of “Taxi Driver” and ...
In Hollywood at the time, whispers about Ince’s death and Hearst’s involvement were easily heard, and the story told in Peter Bogdanovich’s “The Cat’s Meow” is, the film tells us, “the whisper heard most often.” Bogdanovich is not much interested in the scandal as a scandal. H...
First Place —Kevin McKeever,The Advocate, Stamford, Conn. Judge’s comment: Kevin McKeever’s beautifully-written columns range from the serious and emotional to amusing. A sad and thoughtful account of the death of a high school classmate went beyond a newspaper’s typical and predictable M...
The point is that medical care can be much less expensive. If you can't show that the primary cause of high US healthcare costs is medical staff salary then the cost of healthcare in Thailand and India are directly applicable to the assertion that health care costs are too high in...
his sister. While scrounging for food, he had often fed himself first, and his sister second. Her undeniable cause of death was hunger, and it was a sad fact that would haunt Nosaka for years. It prompted him to write about the experience, in hopes of purging the demons tormenting him...
Kubrick’s death “was a bolt from the blue,” said Hyams, an executive vice president at the studio. “He had been working every day, those 18-hour days. He was such a perfectionist.” Pending a coroner’s report, Hyams said, it was assumed that the cause of death was a heart att...
Scott had been in uncertain health in recent years, and was found dead late Wednesday at his home in Westlake Village, near Los Angeles. No cause of death was given. He continued working almost to the end, winning an Emmy (also rejected) for his made-for-TV work in “12 Angry Men”...
There is a new kind of movie emerging in the 1970s that considers, with almost frightening perceptiveness, the ways people really behave toward each other. No
The character of Johnny may cause you to blink if you’ve just seen the wonderful “A Room with a View.” He is played byDaniel Day-Lewis, the same actor who, in “Room,” plays the heroine’s affected fiancee, Cecil. Seeing these two performances side by side is an affirmation of ...
s psychedelic orgy and ending with his death are, I must say on Meyer’s behalf, as exciting, terrifying and dynamic as any such sequence I can remember. That stretch of “BVD” is pure cinema, combining shameless melodrama, highly charged images of violence, sledge-hammer editing and ...