Word: cecile
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Lewis, who was reared in England yet carries an Irish passport, there is a strong streak of Eire: the tale-spinning, the mordant thoughtfulness, the smile in his soft voice that lightens his remarks with a puckish irony. His father Cecil was the Irish-born poet laureate of England. His mother is actress Jill Balcon, whose Baltic Jewish father, Sir Michael Balcon, ran Ealing Studios, Britain's renowned comedy factory. Daniel's sister Tamasin, four years older, is a documentary filmmaker and writer on food...
...using the actual factory Schindler operated, even the apartment he once inhabited. The scenes in which the Jews are forced into the ghetto or endure the torments of camp life are shot documentary style, with hand-held cameras. As Spielberg says: "I didn't want to direct off a Cecil B. DeMille crane. I wanted to do more CNN reporting with a camera I could hold in my hand." To enhance this effect, he eschewed storyboards for only the third time in his 14 films. Instead in some sequences he filled several streets with hundreds of extras, rehearsed them extensively...
...Wilder's film noir, which has been preserved more than adapted. The climax, when the fallen star Norma Desmond shoots her lover and he tumbles into a swimming pool, has opera's larger-than-life emotion. So does the denouement, as she lapses into madness and announces, to a Cecil B. DeMille visible only to her, that she is ready for her close-up. It is apt that her home now resembles the old opera house in Paris where Phantom is set and that her finale echoes the mad scene of Lucia di Lammermoor...
...decidedly different from the one imagined by Martin Luther King. Their vision allegedly went like this: a phalanx of skinheads with machine guns would invade the First African Methodist Episcopal Church in Los Angeles. The congregation would be sprayed with bullets, and the pastor, (the Rev.) Cecil Murray, would be murdered. Across the U.S., other blacks were potential targets -- Rodney King, (the Rev.) Al Sharpton, the rap group Public Enemy, perhaps even a baseball player. An all-out race war would be triggered, a final, bloody Ragnarok of the races...
Last December, with a similar $1 million grant from the Walt Disney Co., the city's First African Methodist Episcopal Church launched a Renaissance Program of 20 entrepreneurial projects. Among them: a loan plan that the church's pastor, the Rev. Cecil Murray, says will renovate 35 existing black businesses in Los Angeles, start up 35 new ones and employ 350 people. "Spiritual development cannot take place without economic development," Murray says of the church's economic gospel. Says Danny Bakewell: "It has to be an active principle. It is not something that you can just talk about on Sunday...