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...ability to flesh out a character in a few deft strokes has made him one of Hollywood's most versatile leading men. But as his paintings attest, Gene Hackman, 55, enjoys working on canvas almost as much as on celluloid. During the 1950s the actor first took up the brush as an art student fresh out of the Marines and resumed in earnest about eight years ago. Though he finds painting "more serene" than acting, and has more than 100 oil landscapes and portraits to his credit, Hackman has neither the desire nor the time to mount a gallery show...
...Gate. In a vain attempt to redeem himself in the eyes of the viewing public, Cimino assumes the Herculean task of grafting together elements of the action-adventure, love-story, cops-and-robbers and suspense-thriller genres. The final result is nothing more than an unintelligible mass of celluloid which might be more aptly titled Raiders of the Lost Opium Den or Godfather III-The Chinese Syndrome...
BORN. To Amy Irving, 31, actress of stage (Heartbreak House), screen (Micki & Maude) and TV (The Far Pavilions), and Steven Spielberg, 37, celluloid superczar who has two new productions (The Goonies, Back to the Future) in this summer's crop of films: the unmarried couple's first child, a son; in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Max Samuel. Weight...
...Disney's celluloid fantasy is scarcely more elaborate than some of the theories that researchers have concocted to explain the demise of the dinosaurs at the end of the Cretaceous period, 65 million years ago. Some of the more notable flights of fancy, while capturing the public's imagination, have strained scientists' credulity. Yet, complains Physicist Richard Muller, "these are the theories kids are taught by their elementary school teachers...
Billed as a romance, advertised like a celluloid Penthouse forum. featuring a comedy team cast too good for either. The Sure Thing becomes more than any of this it is the freshman movie of that spring...