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DIED. JULIUS EPSTEIN, 91, Academy Award-winning screenwriter of Casablanca and author of more than 50 produced screenplays; in Los Angeles. Epstein was the inspiration for the naive Julian Blumberg, whose stories are plagiarized by Sammy Glick in Budd Schulberg's Hollywood novel, What Makes Sammy...
...Casablanca triangle: an idealist, his conflicted wife and the adventurer who can save a life by breaking a heart. Proof of Life isn't quite at that level of romantic melodrama, but its wit, vigor and rue make it a superior entertainment--and a lot more illuminating than the real-life romance it sparked...
...lady. I have a sappy, soap opera kind of mind, I regret to report. I decided immediately that the princess would have done the sweet and selfless thing, and, like Rick Blaine sending Ilsa Lund off with Victor Lazlo on the Lisbon plane at the end of "Casablanca," would have sacrificed her own happiness, swallowed her regret, and withdrawn in a fog of nobility...
There are times when less would not be more, when it would just be regrettably...less. Umberto Eco has argued, for example, that Casablanca works because it evokes every convention of the romantic-adventure genre. If it had missed even one or two of them, he suggests, it would have been just another forgettably routine wartime movie...
There are times when less would not be more, when it would just be regrettably... less. Umberto Eco has argued, for example, that "Casablanca" works because it evokes every convention of the romantic-adventure genre. If it had missed even one or two of them, he suggests, it would have been just another forgettably routine wartime movie...