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* One awesome statistical distinction of the U.S.S.R. is the number of its movie theaters: there are 154,000 of them, which is 58% of all the cinemas in the world. The U.S. is second with only 16,000. One reason for this amazing proliferation is that Soviet doctrine?especially before...
For some directors, the endings are darkly lit. The first director assigned to Slave of Love was a wildly talented young Uzbek named Rustam Hamdamov, the hope of the Soviet film school, who seemed destined to drag this once proud national cinema back to glory. But according to a friend...
In Hollywood's heyday the films were only celluloid, but the cinemas that showed them were marbled citadels of fantasy and opulence. From coast to coast, Paramounts and Paradises, Orpheums and Roxys enfolded audiences in some of the most exuberantly romantic architecture ever conceived in the U.S. As Cinemogul...
The save-the-palaces movement burgeoned too late to spare some of the great houses, notably Manhattan's Roxy, the Orpheums of Seattle and Portland, Ore., and the Paradise (lost) of Chicago. Many that still exist have become porn houses. Others were stripped and chopped into two, three or...
"A lean, dark-eyed man of forty-three whose brown hair was beginriing to turn gray, Talese was not entirely a stranger to the people in the room. He had visited Sandstone often in the past ... and his book-in-progress had already received inordinate amounts of publicity ... Most of...