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According to Morris, the acquisition includes correspondence between Vidal and Norman Mailor, Joyce Carol Oates, John Cheever, Richard Burton, Norman Lear, Federico Fellini, Tennessee Williams, and others...
Driskell’s tenure, however, is remembered mostly for blunders and divisiveness, including the impeachment scandal of her vice president, John A. Burton...
...worst years ever. Who can remember a worse year than the one where the meaty offerings were unequivocally over-cooked Christmas hams like Pearl Harbor and The Mummy Returns, and one great film (Spielberg’s A.I.) that everyone hated? Furthermore, who ever thought that Tim Burton would make a truly, undeniably unwatchable film (Planet of the Apes)? Please, save us Santa. Repeat viewings of It’s a Wonderful Life are indeed wondrous, but some chestnuts can roast for only so long...
...convoy of cars and taxis filled with journalists and interpreters was halted at a bridge by bearded guards bearing Kalashnikovs. A few vehicles managed to speed away but two were trapped. The armed men, probably Taliban but possibly bandits, forced four journalists out?sparing their drivers. The four, HARRY BURTON, 33, and AZIZULLAH HAIDARI, 33, both with Reuters; MARIA GRAZIA CUTULI, 39, of the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera; and JULIO FUENTES, 46, of the Spanish daily El Mundo, were beaten, stoned and then shot at close range. When the bodies were recovered two days later, each victim had multiple...
...betrothal of director TIM BURTON and LISA MARIE, his alien in Mars Attacks! and TV vamp in Ed Wood, made odd sense. Who else could be Burton's wacky muse? Three words: HELENA BONHAM CARTER. The monkey business didn't start until after the release of Burton's film Planet of the Apes, in which Bonham Carter (left, at the movie's premiere) and Marie played foxy simians. (During the shoot, notes Bonham Carter's rep, "she was in latex from head to toe.") That's the way things began between Bonham Carter and then-married Kenneth Branagh too, after...