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Despite the heated competition for theater space among the blockbuster wannabes this summer, art films are actually having an easier time finding homes. The country's top 75 markets all have art houses or artistically bent multiplexes where small movies are sought after. "The only time it's dangerous to open against a commercial film is when that film is by Scorsese or Soderbergh or the Coen brothers," says Jack Foley, distribution and marketing chief for Focus, which is releasing The Kid Stays in the Picture, a documentary about maverick '70s movie producer Robert Evans, opposite the Austin Powers sequel...
Crime (Sundays, 10 p.m. E.T.), from L&O producer Dick Wolf, borrows not just L&O's cha-chung! sound between scenes but also its pro-prosecution bent. Made in cooperation with San Diego prosecutors, it finds raw drama in cases of murder and child molestation; after one verdict, a courtroom melee breaks out. As reality TV, it's riveting, addictive and well told. As a civics lesson, it's manipulative and tendentious. We have access only to the D.A.s, so the presumption of innocence, unpopular with crime-show viewers anyway, gets 86ed, and every emotional cue prods...
Moore became surgeon-in-chief at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, now Brigham and Women’s Hospital, as well as Harvard Medical School’s Moseley professor of surgery in 1948. He remained the chief surgeon for 28 years and retained his professorship until his 1981 retirement...
...protest with the most serious consequences for those involved had a local bent...
...while standing outside the popular Petit Majestic Bar. The French driver, instead of apologizing, chastised Kwok for standing in the way; then, according to the trade paper Variety, three French toughs formed a cordon to let the driver escape. The director left for Paris the next day, body bent but spirit unbroken...