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...musicians-Thelonius Monk, for one -Cassavetes is most interested in the pauses and side notes everyone else passes over. The Killing of a Chinese Bookie is another of the director's blitzed meditations on life at the edge. Cosmo Vitelli (Ben Gazzara) owns a strip joint on Sunset Boulevard and a debt of dishonor. No sooner has he finished paying off the mortgage on the Crazy Horse West than he runs up an unmanageable IOU at a Santa Monica gambling joint. To pay the debt, the gamblers put this proposition to Cosmo: snuff a Chinatown bookie. Cosmo likes...
...possible, even more stereotypical. He hovers over each scene like a one-man Greek chorus. "While it's happening, I see the humor of it all," Larry tells Sarah after his mother's first visit to his Village apartment. And when he heads out for ultimate success on Sunset Boulevard, the tenderest thing he can tell his tearful Mama is "You're a funny lady, Ma." Larry did not need New York to corrupt him; detachment and glib posturing must have come easily to him even before he bought his first authentic-looking French beret. Still, the image would...
Hills, whose father was a building-supplies millionaire, spent her childhood attending private schools, horseback riding, playing tennis (she was captain of the Stanford women's tennis team) and living in the Beverly Hills mansion that was used as a set for Paramount's Sunset Boulevard. After graduating from Yale Law in 1958, she became an assistant U.S. attorney in Los Angeles, and later set up a law firm with her husband and friends in 1962. She also taught at U.C.L.A. Law, wrote a handbook on antitrust cases and was co-author of a textbook, Federal Civil Practice...
...gray afternoon of Oct. 29, 1965, Mehdi Ben Barka-a self-exiled left-wing Moroccan politician and a well-known critic of King Hassan II -was stopped outside the Brasserie Lipp on Paris's Boulevard St. Germain by two French agents. "You have a rendezvous with some politicians," said one of them. Ben Barka, 45, who was accustomed to being tailed by the police, climbed into the back of an unmarked Peugeot 403. The car drove off. Ben Barka has not been seen in public since...
...body was interred in the garden of a villa at Fontenay-le-Vicomte, a Paris suburb; 16 days later, for fear that inquisitive French police might discover it, the corpse was hastily exhumed and reburied on the southeast bank of the Ile de la Grande Jatte opposite the Boulevard General Leclerc, in another Paris suburb, Neuilly-sur-Seine...