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...chameleonic theatricality to pop music. Each new Eurythmics video presented a new Annie: the vamp, the gigolo, the ambassadress from another planet. So why not, for her first album without longtime partner Dave Stewart, the diva? In the videos she can wear beaded gowns and Victorian hats, feathers and angel wings, white tie and tails. Another opening, another dozen roles. Ironic...
Leading slut is more like it. For The Blue Angel is the tragic (if now faintly risible) story of the sadomasochistic relationship between a nightclub singer and a middle-aged high school teacher who becomes obsessed with her. The callousness of Lola-Lola's manipulations was memorable, but not more so than the soon-to-be-famous legs that walked all over her victim. Von Sternberg returned triumphantly to Hollywood, and Dietrich followed...
...including his imprisonment for robbery. But they were able to portray King as a large, aggressive man who was legally drunk. Much was made of the officers' claim that they thought King had gained unusual strength and tolerance to pain because, they believed, he was under the influence of angel dust -- the hallucinogenic drug pcp. Subsequent tests showed no trace of the drug in King's system...
...either they're laughed off or they're bumped off. PBS'S AMERICAN MASTERS series makes a case for respect this week with Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey, a lovely tribute to a Hollywood survivor. Salt had penned several successful films in the 1930s and '40s (The Shopworn Angel) when he was forced into exile by the blacklist. The script assignments eventually returned, but his talent didn't: his name first reappeared on dogs like Taras Bulba. But Salt made a comeback with his powerful screenplay for Midnight Cowboy, followed by Serpico and Coming Home. Nice work, nice...
Although the conceptual design appears straightforward, the casting of a honeycomb mirror requires considerable technical know-how -- and time. Angel's team tackles the job in their hangar-like mirror lab located, improbably enough, under the stands of the University of Arizona football stadium. In the center of the lab is a huge round furnace. To make a mirror, a complex ceramic mold is assembled inside the furnace and filled with glittering chunks of Pyrex-type glass. Once the furnace lid is sealed, the temperature will slowly ratchet up over a period of several days, at times rising no more...