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...militiamen were also eager to wash their hands of the hijack affair as quickly as possible on June 30, when they began to release the remaining 39 American hostages. "I thought surely they'd give us a body search as we left Beirut," Hill recalled. "If not there, at least in Damascus before they set us free." Nothing of the sort happened, and Hill was able to smuggle out his film, concealing it in his underwear...
...really bad poem, a piece of doggerel," says David M. Bevington, professor of English at the University of Chicago. "The poem itself does not sound much like Shakespeare to me," says Princeton's Alvin B. Kernan. Frank Kermode of Columbia is even harsher. "This is a very silly affair," he says. "True, Shakespeare wrote some bad poems, but the way this one is bad is not similar in any fashion to the way Shakespeare was bad. The whole thing is a mess...
...plot. The major developments all affect Harry Cuno, a handsome, charming dilettante who lives in a Bloomsbury house and whose dead father was once a popular highbrow novelist. Harry has had two wives, both of whom died young. For the past two years he has conducted a secret, passionate affair with his second wife's younger sister Midge, who is married to a Scottish, half-Jewish psychiatrist named Thomas McCaskerville. Harry wants Midge to leave her husband, and her stalling makes him fretful: "I love her, she loves me, yet we're in hell...
...want to dance, or do you want to dance?" from The Thomas Crown Affair. It has sentimental value for me since I produced the movie and it didn't fall on its face. There were many in the Bond movies, but most of them were embarrassing...
...Family Affair...