Word: cinemas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...moviegoer will soon know all about Khartoum. That's where the well-known dervish leader Sir Laurence Olivier and thousands of white-turbaned extras rode out of a Cinerama desert in 1885 and did in Her Majesty's General Charlton Heston (see CINEMA). The movie stops there, but the British did not. Thirteen years later, they recaptured the city and slaughtered 11,000 dervishes, including all known male descendants of the character Olivier portrays, the fierce prophet El Mahdi...
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...film festivals go, the biennial splash at the baths of Karlovy Vary, Czechoslovakia, seldom causes more than a ripple of interest in the world of cinema. Last week, however, the centuries-old spa-known as Carlsbad when Dostoevsky used to gamble away rubles at the casino, while the crowned heads of Europe took the waters to prolong their reigns-was jammed with film buffs, critics, buyers and distributors from all across Europe and the U.S. None of them had anything more than a peripheral interest in the dreary assortment of 42 films from such ersatz Hollywoods as Mongolia and Tunisia...
...modeling when she was twelve, "to make a little dough," and had graced the cover of Harper's Bazaar by the time she went to Hollywood at 18. In her very first film, To Have and Have Not (1945), she added a classic come-on line to U.S. cinema legend, and anyone who heard her utter it the first time around fully qualifies as middleaged: "If you want anything, just whistle." Humphrey Bogart wanted...
...habits that travel abroad have already been influenced at home by other cultures. From the King James Bible to Scandinavian modern furniture to LSD, some of the best and worst of culture in the U.S. has been imported. With the rise of U.S. power and affluence, much American music, cinema, art, design, ballet and theater have begun to meet and marry in midocean with their European counterparts, forming a sort of Atlantic culture...