Word: celluloidal
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...Powell's career as a largely unread novelist goes nowhere. He works for Warner Bros, near London, hacking out scripts about messenger boys and Victorian philanthropists. None are produced. In 1937, at the suggestion of his agent, Powell journeys to Hollywood. The high point of his stay in Celluloid City is a lunch at the MGM commissary with Scott Fitzgerald, who draws a rough map of North America for the English visitor, diagramming with arrows the directions from which culture has flowed into...
...points out Harvard's Roger Porter, who worked in Gerald Ford's White House, "but Reagan is the first President to act this way." Reagan has burst upon the academic reveries of the historians and political scientists as something-at last-real. He is no longer celluloid. "There is a logic to his boldness," says Porter. "Something less would lead to a feeling of uncertainty. It is more difficult to achieve a modest change than a broad change where everyone is involved...
Unless they settle their feud once and for all, neither man may get a chance to test those policies in office. "By the time the [Rabin-Peres] battle is over," Jerusalem Post Columnist Philip Gillon commented recently, the winner "will have as much hope of beating Begin as a celluloid dog would have of catching an asbestos cat in Hades...
...attempts a few foul shots at his past life. There are some affecting moments in The Old Neighborhood, but ultimately this scenario-sized volume seems as out of place on paper as its hero is on an office carpet. For Steve, home is cement. The Old Neighborhood belongs on celluloid...
...magical, dancing glow even to lackluster materials. Despite all the superfluous innuendos of Meaning, the impotent love story, the seductive but empty-headed banality of the lady-star (Barbara Hershey), and a screenplay that at times suggests that talkies were a big mistake, Rush has created a nerve-tingling celluloid magic show. Rush is a master of the infinite details of the surface, the colored smokes of movie-making, the actual play of images on the acetate. The wholly superficial brilliance of Rush's direction is enough to make The Stunt Man a rare thrill...