Word: casablanca
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...script, an acknowledgment from a producer that a concept is not a bankable text. David Thomson, a London-born critic based in San Francisco, reverses the procedure with a work of fiction drawn entirely from old films. His sources are such moody classics as Citizen Kane, Double Indemnity, Laura, Casablanca and dozens of other favorites from the Late Show of the American psyche...
...tasteless is not really in the vocabulary of a gross-out scriptwriter. Some movie people shiver when they think of great film scenes: Gloria Swanson descending the stairs at the end of Sunset Boulevard, or Humphrey Bogart and Claude Rains walking into the fog at the conclusion of Casablanca. Gross-out writers receive a similar thrill when they remember John Belushi filling his mouth with mashed potatoes in Animal House--and then popping his cheeks and spewing out the contents...
Inviting customers to "Round Up the Usual Suspects," the Club Casablanca reopened this weekend after a negotiated settlement ended the 10-day employee strike...
...Casablanca owners were financially constrained in the negotiations, the owner's labor attorney. Andrew L. Eisenberg, said at the beginning of the strike. The restaurant declared bankruptcy in June of 1983 and is still in the process of paying off creditors, he added...
...Casablanca workers Sunday night celebrated what waitress Margaret H. Brautigan termed "very much a victory...