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...DIED. FRANK GORSHIN, 72, rubbery-faced impressionist-actor who channeled his passion for film idols, nourished as a teenage cinema usher in Pittsburgh, into a 54-year career in Las Vegas clubs, on TV and in more than 80 movies; in Burbank, California. With his aping of Al Jolson, James Cagney and Marlon Brando, Gorshin was a regular on the Ed Sullivan Show, where he was a guest the night the Beatles made their U.S. TV debut. ("Look at all these kids that came to see me!" he said backstage.) But he gained his greatest fame playing the Riddler...
...actors, including a beautifully shaven-haired Natalie Portman, ascended the red-carpeted steps of the Grand Palais. A hosanna rose from the thousands of gawkers held back by police barriers. Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, marking its premiere at the 58th Cannes Film Festival, conquered world cinema as surely as the Jedi knights vanquished their intergalactic foes. American movies have that force, even at a festival determined to celebrate the variety of international film. The planet's largest annual trade show, photo op and schmoozathon, Cannes this year welcomed movies from Cambodia and Korea, Hungary and Kurdish...
...spaceships and special effects. Until he does that, I will prefer directors like Steven Spielberg, whose films Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan show how deeply he can engage people's emotions. While I respect Lucas, if he wants to engrave his name in the annals of cinema, he needs to produce something quite different from the children's entertainment he has been making...
...though they’d make fine computer labs. On the large part, however, the transition of Hilles from “library” to “library and student center” shouldn’t be overwhelmingly painful; after all, Hilles is equipped with a cinema in the basement (another vastly underused resource), a grille-style eatery with terraces and wide-open study spaces in the Penthouse, and plenty of built-in exhibition and office space (currently occupied by house tutors), not to mention very inviting grounds and a courtyard...
...Some viewers, anyway. Emotions are hard to describe in words, harder to justify in a roomful of cinema intellectuals, some of whom hooted derisively at the end of Once You're Born. A movie gets to you or it doesn't, makes you cry or leaves you cold. We'll just say that, for maybe half of this film, one of us (the one with the beard) was wetter than Sandro on that night in the Mediterranean. And the other (prettier) one followed the boy's journey from the comfort of childhood into a mature awareness of human contradictions...