Word: celluloid
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...five on the French hit parade, is a hilarious farce about a mild-mannered boat designer caught in the crossfire between his wife, his girlfriend - and his boyfriend. But if films pay the bulk of Luchini's bills these days, he makes no secret about preferring the boards to celluloid. Balding, short of stature and, lately, getting a little paunchy around the waist, Luchini is nobody's idea of a classic matinee idol. But he has something almost no other actor possesses these days: a flawless elocution, a way of incarnating the spoken word that turns a text into...
...Frank Wedekind's legendary anti-heroine seemed to make great sense. Friel shot to British fame in 1994, principally for providing one half of the first lesbian kiss on a mainstream television soap, Brookside. Despite having appeared in 11 films, Friel has yet to enjoy the sort of celluloid success attained by her British contemporary Rachel Weisz, whose Enemy at the Gates has just opened, let alone the stellar heights of Catherine Zeta-Jones...
...wall of my office is a strip of celluloid about a foot long, flat as a knife blade until it folds at each end. It is a piece of 16mm film that must be 40 or 50 years old. Along one side you can see the waveform of the optical soundtrack, a continuous line of jagged ridges and valleys; on the opposite side runs a line of sprocket holes that allow the cogs of the projector to pull the film past the lamp. Letters can be seen between the holes: G, E, V, A, others I can't make...
...DIED. DALE EVANS, 88, buckskin-tassled "Queen of the West" who rode across both big and little screens in two TV shows and nearly 40 films alongside celluloid cowboy husband Roy Rogers; in Apple Valley, California. A single, teenage mother in Uvalde, Texas, Evans worked as a stenographer before launching a career as a radio singer and songwriter who would win a place in the all-time hit parade with the king of cowboy songs, Happy Trails...
...Count on Me You want strong female characters? A stand-up-and-cheer story? You've got it. Laura Linney gives hands-down the best performance of the year in this searing drama about an abbreviated family. The brother-sister relationship here is the most realistic ever portrayed on celluloid. My pick for Best Picture...