Word: camera
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...instance of Hollywood introspection would be more interesting if it weren't so cynical. A few minutes later, the action has returned to a heart-thumping pace. Cici is stabbed in the back and thrown from the balcony of her sorority house. The rock sound track swells as the camera dwells for a moment on her corpse...
...quite an actress, in any repertory manner, and she was reportedly an increasing nightmare to work with, recklessly spoiled and unsure, barely able to complete even the briefest scene between breakdowns. Only in the movies can such impossible behavior, and such peculiar, erratic gifts, create eternal magic--only the camera has the mechanical patience to capture the maddening glory of a celluloid savant like Monroe. At her best, playing warmhearted floozies in Some Like It Hot and Bus Stop, she's like a slightly bruised moonbeam, something fragile and funny and imperiled. I don't think audiences ever particularly identify...
...player, he hit 54 home runs--more than any entire team in the American League. Within a few years, his assault on distant fences had bent baseball into a new and thrilling shape. His appetites were as prodigious as his home runs, his affinity for the crowd and the camera seemingly part of his dna. By the time he retired in 1935, Ruth had become, in the words of sportswriter Jimmy Cannon, "a national heirloom," a gift from one generation to the next, a treasure from an earlier time...
BORN May 22, 1930, in Woodmere, N.Y. 1951 Enlists in the Navy 1964 Campaigns for Barry Goldwater 1972 Moves to San Francisco with lover Scott Smith. They open a camera shop in the Castro, the emerging gay enclave 1973 Makes first run for city board of supervisors 1977 Wins seat, becoming the first openly gay elected official of any large city ASSASSINATED Nov. 27, 1978, by conservative former board member Dan White, whose light sentence sparks riots
...Those guys have basically been the heart and soul of that place. Sometimes city councillors play to the camera and get full of themselves. [Duehay and Russell] have always brought things back to earth and put things in perspective," he says...