Word: casablanca
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...what in heaven's name brought you to Casablanca...
...around the greasepaint. And like Welles, Huston came to films with a gleeful yet prodigiously discriminating eye for characature and atmosphere-creating jargon. He handles Humphrey Bogart perfectly in the role of Sam Spade--by letting Bogart do Bogart, but without the "sentimentalist" soft spots of Rick in "Casablanca" or the nervousness of the hunted criminal in "Petrified Forest." Bogart is nothing more nor less than leather-skinned in this role: cool, jaded, manipulative. Dashiell Hammit included a last scene in his book during which the reader really grasps what a contemptible specimen Spade is. But Huston thankfully understood that...
...that his characters are tied to. The Cheap Detective is no exception, but it's a looser and much better script than Murder, and a much better movie. There were 11 names above the title in Murder; here there are 16. Cheap Detective largely shoots off The Maltese Falcon, Casablanca, To Have and Have Not, and Chinatown. Peter Falk is sensational...
Franklin Roosevelt was the first President to take to the air and dramatically expand a President's reach, flying in 1943 to Casablanca in a Boeing Clipper to meet Churchill and De Gaulle. Harry Truman sped to Wake Island to parley with General Douglas MacArthur in a Douglas DC-6 called the Independence. Ike was hailed throughout the world in the Columbine, a slope-nosed Lockheed Constellation. All made momentous trips, heightened by the marvel of American aviation that shrank the world dramatically with each new President...
...during the past decade, Las Vegas added 15,000 and Hawaii, prospering on cheap air charters, increased its total by more than 27,000 rooms. Low-cost tourist packages ($319 for travel and lodging in London; only $355 for a return flight from New York to Casablanca) have drawn away the younger set, while retired sun seekers have been lured to Mexico, the Caribbean and the Mediterranean. The surprising boom of the Caribbean cruise business added to the damage; many a visitor this winter will merely ride through the Miami area en route from mainland airport to cruise-ship dock...