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...moved to Los Angeles in 1978, and Cinecom, a four-year- old Manhattan firm. Hemdale, the producer of Platoon, quickly followed up with Hoosiers this year, a much praised sentimental film about an Indiana basketball team. Cinecom, which backed A Room with a View, this month released Swimming to Cambodia, a $485,000 movie that consists entirely of a monologue by Actor Spalding Gray. While both companies have lately scored huge hits, their philosophy is to survive on modest successes by keeping costs low. Says Amir Malin, Cinecom's president: "The major studios have to make a tremendous profit...
Someth May distinctly remembers his mathematics tutor at a private school in Cambodia (now Kampuchea). He was a thin man with short gray hair who drove around town on a "rusty old sky-blue Mobylette." It made a terrible noise that his laughing students likened to a "tubercular cough." He always dressed simply, allowed no jokes and demanded punctuality, but he was a popular teacher who never punished his charges. At the end of each lesson, the mild man in sandals generally delivered a brief lament for the corruption of their society...
...days after their bewildered arrival in Washington. Assisted in that sudden release and encouraged to learn English by British Poet-Journalist James Fenton, whom he had met in Phnom Penh, the author, now 29, gets it all down with a straightforward vividness that chills the bones. / His portrait of Cambodia lost would in any circumstances be vital anthropology; in the light of what came after, however, it also assumes the weight of almost unbearable elegy...
Every President from Kennedy to Reagan, with the possible exception of Jimmy Carter, is morally guilty. The names in any history book speak for themselves: the Bay of Pigs; Vietnam; Cambodia; Chile; Lebanon; Grenada; and most recently, Nicaragua...
Sometimes an Eden is brought down by the quite literal invasion of the real world, as even the most faraway places get placed in the sights of the superpowers. Tibet was stormed by the Chinese, and now the dreamed-of Shangri- La is vanished forever; Cambodia was caught in a cross fire, and an earthly paradise so gentle that ricksha drivers were said to tip their passengers is now a land of skulls; Afghanistan was overrun by Soviet tanks, and now a book of photographs remembering its fugitive beauties is subtitled, mournfully, Paradise Lost. In an age when airlines...