Word: burt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...remembered by the laugh. His muscular head would snap back, and out would come three bold, staccato barks: "Ha. Ha. Ha." That laugh helped define Burt Lancaster's personality and gave amiable employment to a generation of mimics. But the cool thing about the Lancaster laugh was that it could mean anything; it might express amusement or a jolly contempt. His smile, a CinemaScope revelation of perfect teeth, had the same enigmatic edge to it. Was it benediction or absolution? Was it seductive or -- perhaps -- a predatory baring of fangs...
Hollywood giant Burt Lancaster, a 1960 Oscar winner for his role as flamboyant sham evangelist Elmer Gantry, died of a heart attack at age 80. His career spanned 70 films. But the Lancaster image that lingers for many is the once scandalous "From Here to Eternity" beach scene, in which a taut Burt and a svelte Deborah Kerr nearly get swept away...
There's never silence when Tarantino is in the room. This engaging, nonstop performer -- named by his half-Cherokee mother for the hero of Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury as well as for the half-breed (Quint) played by Burt Reynolds in Gunsmoke -- was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, and moved to Southern California when he was two. Since then, it's been a movie-mad life. His folks took him to all sorts of films, then he went on his own. He seems to have remembered -- and understood -- everything he's seen. "He's probably the best video...
...juxtapositions, commingling the solemn and the sordid, helped forge the legend of Big Brother as newspaper columnist. In the words of a 1933 ad slogan, WINCHELL HE SEES ALL HE KNOWS ALL. With its rightful emphasis on the power-mad side of Winchell's persona, Gabler's biography validates Burt Lancaster's chilling portrayal of gossipmonger J.J. Hunsecker in the 1957 film The Sweet Smell of Success. (In real life, Winchell, in cinema noir fashion, had his daughter Walda carted off to an asylum in a straitjacket in paternal rage against an unsuitable marriage.). The same haunting sense of hubris...
...find the books!" said Sarah J. Burt-Kinderman '97. "I see lots of books on slavery, but they're not mine. There are so many books used for different sections, why don't they mark what is what? They all say 'Section...