Word: colorful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With Mardi Gras only a week away, Frank Fullmer should be both busy and prosperous. His 53-room Bel-Air Motel (heated swimming pool, free color TV in every room) on a major highway into New Orleans is strategically located to catch the annual stampede of carnival-bound tourists. This year, however, fully one-third of his rooms are empty. "We ought to be filling up about now," he frets. "I guess people just don't want to take a chance this year...
...commercial sector, where they spread their small supply of goods or produce out in front of them on the uneven stones of the streets. As the dark early morning sky begins to lighten, the quarter is slowly transformed from sleepy urban streets into a carnival-like marketplace of relentless color and activity...
VISUALLY, TOO, PARTNER points up Bertolucci's greatest short-coming. Aside from occasional verbal slips, he is most pretentious when his fluid camerawork begins to dominate the content of the film. Superfluous dolly shots, over-emphasis on color, and attempts at unusual angles begin at times to take over his films. Spider's Stratagem is probably the worst offender in this area, since Borges' story needed no extra emphasis at all. But there Bertolucci was merely trying too hard to make his points. In Partner he molds the film to suit his visual whim. A revolving chandelier is the most...
...Wizard's 16th incarnation. Some trivia: When editing the film in 1939, MGM executives decided to drop the "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" number. Too sentimental, they said; slows down the film. Lyricist E.Y. Harburg talked them out of it. Aren't you glad? Ch. 4, 6:30 p.m. Color (except for the scenes in Kansas), 2 hours...
Today, althogh ice-fishing is one of the fastest-growing sports in the U.S., the old bundled-up fisherman is fast becoming an imperiled species. At lakes from Maine to Michigan, most winter anglers now dangle their bait from inside heated shacks, many equipped with carpeting, color TV, stereos, stoves chemical toilets, bunks, closets and -the ultimate redundancy-refrigerators...