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...brief trip to the Middle East conflict, a three-week journey from Cairo to Istanbul, has not given me any cogent insight into the conflict. The columns and editorials I have read this week provide small bits of wisdom and less encouragement. Perhaps I feel like many of us do when confronted with this bloody, intractable mess when I simply want to throw my hands up in the air and exclaim, “The world...
...just Winchell's Broadway with better weather; chicanery and cupidity know no time zone. At Lehman's first meeting with Lancaster, the actor walked in zipping his fly and declaring, "She swallowed it!" Soon Lehman's writing assignments were extending beyond script work, according to Kate Buford's cogent biography, "Lancaster: An American Life," which gives the fullest account of the making of "Sweet Smell." Barbara Nichols, who was to play the sexy cigarette girl, had spent most of a recent night trysting with the film's producer, James Hill - like Lancaster, a notorious ladies' man. In the wee-smalls...
...late Meg Greenfield, who for years ran the Washington Post's editorial page, wrote that when she was a young woman and had not yet learned to write and think, she would join conversations in which the following would pass for a cogent political opinion: "John Foster Dulles....I mean....Dulles...
...back with Orson. Much of the densely layered "Kane" sound track is an echo of effects and vo-cal tricks from "Mercury" and "Campbell." The first words to be seen in Welles? first feature film are "A Radio Picture"; and, as David Thomson notes in "Rose-bud," his lusciously cogent biography of Welles, the movie "is, among so many other things, a great piece of radio...
...well as the independent sphere, which he had helped to jumpstart with "Easy Rider") had no interest in his work? Throughout these lean years, Southern could have easily veered back into what he called the "quality lit game," given his well-respected status in the literary community. The most cogent explanation for Southern's peculiar decision to stick with the film world can be found in his 1962 essay "When Film Gets Good..." (included in "Now Dig This"): "It has become evident that it is wasteful, pointless, and in terms of art, inexcusable, to write a novel which could...