Word: celluloidal
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...parade of celluloid soldiers begins marshaling just before Memorial Day and swells to battalion proportions by the Fourth of July. Their mission: to storm the U.S. box office. Leading this year's assault is that renowned soldier of fortune Indiana Jones; he and his hyperthyroid sequel, Temple of Doom, mounted an early attack on 1,685 movie theaters last week, and in the first two days managed to push up the beach and top the opening of Raiders of the Lost Ark. He is followed by the crew of the starship Enterprise (Star Trek III: The Search for Spock...
...horse unless they paid me." But in America, anything is possible. So to honor his work in such films as Gunfight at the O.K. Corral and his own favorite, Lonely Are the Brave, the Cowboy Hall of Fame in Oklahoma City inducted Kirk Douglas, 67, as its newest celluloid cowpoke, joining the legendary likes of John Wayne. The Duke might have been amused. After Douglas portrayed the eccentric painter Vincent Van Gogh. Wayne asked him, "Why did you play that weak, sniveling character?" Replied Douglas: "I'm an actor." Warned the Duke: "Yeah, well...
...risky for a viewer to sweep too many thematic generalizations into this dusty pile of celluloid. Indeed, a cynic would declare that the only thing this quintet has in common is Hitchcock's greed. The film maker always had an acute eye for commerce. He worked in an economically reliable genre with the industry's biggest stars. He would agree to dump a longtime collaborator like Composer Bernard Herrmann (who worked on eight Hitchcock films from 1955 to 1964) if the studio applied pressure. And when asked why he withheld these five films from theaters...
...long march of celluloid confined to Hollywood. In last week's balloting by the National Society of Film Critics, two of the top three vote getters were Ingmar Bergman's Fanny and Alexander (3 hr. 10 min.) and R.W. Fassbinder's mammoth Berlin Alexanderplatz (15 hr. 21 min.). In the time it would take to watch just those two films, you could have seen all ten pictures nominated for the 1937 Oscar and still have had time left over to catch a Pete Smith Specialty and a couple of Mickey Mouse cartoons...
...Creepshow II, a sequel to the horror omnibus he wrote (and co-starred in) two years ago. Indeed, Hollywood seems ready to snap up virtually anything King sets to paper short of his grocery list-and there is no guarantee some enterprising director will not put that on celluloid some dark and stormy night. ("The cucumbers, he sensed, were acting strange...") None of the books has arrived onscreen with as much dispatch as Christine...