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From the medium's infancy, when the Keystone Kops commandeered the streets of Los Angeles, car chases provided the purest vicarious thrill. Silent stars Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd raised vehicular mayhem to comic art. Alfred Hitchcock fashioned suspenseful laughs by letting an inebriated Cary Grant try driving down a windy road in North by Northwest--and predatory poignancy when James Stewart obsessively tails Kim Novak in Vertigo...
...movies on the road. He dispatched eight teams of projectionists around the country in what he calls cinema caravans-cars loaded with video projectors, amplifiers and screens-which stopped in every town to show not only the educational films but also old classics such as Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton reels. The outdoor screenings were a hit, and the projectionists stayed up late into the nights, showing the movies over and over. "My people have been waiting such a long time to laugh after so much suffering and tragedy," says Barmak. "Our technical guys cried. It was the first time...
...caveats and uncertainties, and it's not surprising that when women finally get to the hospital, it takes longer for doctors and nurses to diagnose their trouble correctly. Unfortunately, the delay may make female patients too sick to qualify for certain lifesaving treatments, such as clot-buster drugs that can stop a heart attack in its tracks. And because most women are older when they develop heart trouble, they are more likely to suffer from other conditions that complicate their care...
...does seem that way. the Redundant Steaks have released five albums: Liquid Dwarf, Rusty Dwarf, Buster Crabbe: The Rock Opera, Columbian Inventions, Chopped Steaks and Petrified Barbecue...
...Although statues and portraits of the dictator have been torn down and dragged through the streets, the man himself has yet to be found. U.S. intelligence reportedly believes Saddam may well have been killed by bunker-buster bombs dropped on a restaurant in the al-Mansour neighborhood Tuesday where he was sighted meeting with aides. British intelligence, however, says the Iraqi leader was seen escaping the site moments before the bombing. Iraqi opposition sources say he slipped out of the capital with at least one of his sons. Some speculated he may try to retreat to his hometown of Tikrit...