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...kind of tough, tart 21st century broad you would expect to idolize a '30s Derby queen: she's armed with a Billy Wilder wit and unafraid to throw elbows. And it's refreshing to see a sitcom about a woman past her 20s who is obsessed with her career clock, not her biological one. A minor accomplishment? Maybe, but one to be proud...
...that stars in the making weren't available to Mann. Gorgeous young Jane Greer was an RKO ing?nue when Mann was there, just two years before her breakthrough role in Out of the Past. In fact, she had her first billed role in Mann's Two O'Clock Courage, where, at 20, she is already sultry and spoiled; and she appears again in his The Bamboo Blonde. But Mann apparently didn't see what Greer had: the high forehead, full lips and amoral aura that gave her a drop-dead-with-a-smile-on-your-face sexual charisma. The director...
...closeups of Claire Trevor and Marsha Hunt manage to catch a cross of light in the left eye of each actress, and another glistening cross in their earrings. Later, to show that time is running out, Alton's reflects Trevor's face in the dial of a black clock. He might allow a figure to swallow the frame, as bulky Raymond Burr does in Raw Deal. Alton also delighted in visual puns: On a dark street, a trash can lid rattles to the ground, and a gunman collapses on it - his head on a platter...
...teammate and leader Oscar Pereiro of Spain. "He went from the penthouse to the outhouse to the moon," says Ventura. Saturday, as expected, Landis sprinted past Pereiro and Carlos Sastre, also from Spain, in the 35-mile time trial, in which each rider races, one by one, against the clock. Landis regained the yellow jersey for a third time...
...Israeli military forces launched strikes in Lebanon this week in response to the Hizballah cross-border attack in which at least eight soldiers were killed and two captured, the defense chief of staff warned that Israel could "turn Lebanon's clock back 20 years." A more precise estimate, perhaps, would...