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Died. Bob Montana, 54, cartoonist-creator of the comic strip Archie; of an apparent heart attack while cross-country skiing; near Meredith, N.H. Montana sketched Archie for more than three decades, peopling the strip in part with characters drawn from his New England high school acquaintances...
...painting, it has to hang as a photograph and a photograph alone, not as an attempt to use photographic tools to produce a painterly result. The face of the real world is simply too recalcitrant and ugly for a camera, stupid, fast instrument that it is, to realize a creator's dream...
...sound track, astonishingly authentic-looking sets, and lots of dry ice on the ground. In a different way he shows even more respect for the book. The romantic writers were preoccupied with the relationship between artist and creation, and in her novel Mary Shelley explored the consequences of the creator's inability to accept responsibility for his creation. One only has to see Young Frankenstein with his arms around the monster, affectionately crooning, "This is a good boy...this is a mother's angel," to recognize that Brooks has overturned the greatest stereotype of all by putting on film what...
...content with making movies, Fellini seems determined to create a whole new world along with each new film--not a distorted reproduction of some world that is or has been, but a fresh-from-the-forehead-of-the-creator god world with its own pleasures, values and idiosyncracies. At first, Fellini seemed to be creating the same world over and over again; lately he appears to be wandering around, establishing new earths in whatever image strikes his fancy. There are a few things common to them all, though; a Fellini world is one where the fantastic is commonplace and madness...
...that line, he gave the show away. For Benny was never a great creator. Even on TV his gift was that of an actor who wraps himself in other people's material. His props were inflections, pauses and reactions. In his mouth, "Well!" could express a thesaurus of repartee; a Benny "Yipe!" could wring laughter from a stone. Benny might have enjoyed a film career as durable as Bob Hope's. As the Polish ham in Ernst Lubitsch's wartime comedy, To Be or Not to Be, the comedian gave one of the screen's classic...