Word: celluloid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cruel when it seemed most raucous and extravagant. As a screenplay-written by Wolf Mankowitz and directed by John Guillermin-Anouilh's fine-feathered strutter has been saponified, caponified, shorn of its more splendid plumes of wit and stuffed with a mighty chunk of supererogatory and rashly overcolored celluloid that might have been more sensibly and even profitably employed to blow up the bank that financed this picture...
...largest cities; public art museums, if they existed at all, were usually ill-lit annexes to the local fossil and arrowhead collection. The theater meant Broadway, and the road companies that once trouped every town hall in the land had long since bowed to the onslaughts of celluloid and popcorn...
...said that students have persuaded a valuable service in questioning Committee-endorsed film, "Operation ," which he called a "celluloid play...
...Vatican has greeted the film with an E rating-which would stand for Excommunication if celluloid had a soul, but in reality means Extra-Money-at-the-Box-Office. Boccaccio '70 proved the point by grossing more than $200,000 in its first ten days, milking the Italian population at an even more prodigious rate than La Dolce Vita...
...reputation but also did little to fulfill his promise. An unsuccessful novel called The World in the Evening followed in 1954. But the elegant dactyls remained on the literary scene. Their possessor had moved to Southern California in 1939. There he taught, wrote film scripts that seldom saw celluloid, and set aside left-wing politics to dabble in Vedanta-living, as Alfred Kazin once remarked acidly, "by the River Ganges where it flows into the Hollywood desert...