Word: alan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...think we won a lot of significant gains," Alan Balsam, chief shop steward for Local 26 of the Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional Employees Union, said yesterday. "Some people felt the offer was not really what we were looking for, but I think that our differences are not that great to merit further action...
...Alan Dershowitz, professor of Law, received a note from Carter last year praising the contents of his article in The New York Times on criminal justice...
...first the whole thing seems like an eccentric stunt. But as the film, done with care and affection, gets going, it works surprisingly well. Bugsy Malone is a jaunty, disarming, usually winning excursion into some of the nearer realms of movie fantasy, nostalgia and parody. Director-Writer Alan Parker manages to sustain this reckless undertaking because he makes it work as many of the best movies do: on a level of common fantasy. For every child smitten by the movies-for those who grew up and those still in the process-Bugsy Malone is a dream fulfilled. The kids...
...Stateside in mid-September-fits into that peculiarly British tradition of grown-up childhood literature. Consider Never-Never Land transported to 1929 New York City and Peter Pan sporting a chalk-stripe double-breasted. The imagination stretches but does not break. There is a certain bizarre continuity there, although Alan Parker, 32, sees his creation more modestly, as a sort of ebullient novelty. "I knew that if I were ever going to break into dramatic film," he says, "I'd need an angle...
While preparing a film for the BBC about some Jewish children during World War II, Parker and his friend. Producer Alan Marshall, were toying with the idea of making their first feature. Parker kept his own kids entertained on long car trips with some improvised stories about a sawed-off gangster named Bugsy Malone...