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...shrewdest analysts of the industry are directors without intellectual pretensions. Henry Hathaway (The Lives of a Bengal Lancer; True Grit) watches Darryl Zanuck turn misogynism into money: "In the early days we always had as a leading man . . . elegant, fashionable men who had good speaking voices. And Darryl said . . . 'Women love bums!' He took all the heavies; Bogey was a heavy; when he picked Clark Gable, Gable was playing a heavy . . . Richard Widmark . . . was the worst . . . heavy in the world . . . And it's still true. Look at the Burt Reynolds and the Clint Eastwoods and all of that crap coming...
...unsurpassed in Asia, and it is all the result of the collecting passion of a late 19th century noble, Khuda Bakhsh. Priceless treasures include the only existing copy of a history?illustrated in gold and indigo?of the Uzbek Emperor Tamerlane, whose dominions once stretched from Baghdad to Bengal. There are 500-year-old Sanskrit scriptures inscribed on palm leaves, Korans 25 mm wide (written so the verses form the shapes of animals) and, in the margins of verses by the poet Hafiz, annotations by the Mughal Emperors Humayun and Jahangir. There are even jottings by Byron?two verses added...
...unsurpassed in Asia, and it is all the result of the collecting passion of a late 19th century noble, Khuda Bakhsh. Priceless treasures include the only existing copy of a history - illustrated in gold and indigo - of the Uzbek Emperor Tamerlane, whose dominions once stretched from Baghdad to Bengal. There are 500-year-old Sanskrit scriptures inscribed on palm leaves, Korans 25 mm wide (written so the verses form the shapes of animals) and, in the margins of verses by the poet Hafiz, annotations by the Mughal Emperors Humayun and Jahangir. There are even jottings by Byron - two verses added...
...with the help of the other Leader himself, Bose traveled by submarine around the Cape of Good Hope to Japan; there he gathered more than 45,000 Indian POWs and began the offensive that would carry him all the way to the Bay of Bengal before the Japanese withdrawal necessitated their retreat and he himself, in a gesture of terrible bathos, was killed in a plane crash...
...with the help of the other Leader himself, Bose traveled by submarine around the Cape of Good Hope to Japan; there he gathered more than 45,000 Indian POWs and began the offensive that would carry him all the way to the Bay of Bengal before the Japanese withdrawal necessitated their retreat and he himself, in a gesture of terrible bathos, was killed in a plane crash...