Word: cukor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...BLESSINGS: Laurence Olivier (68), Katharine Hepburn (66) under the direction of George Cukor (76) in the delicious Love Among the Ruins...
...classics like David Copperfteld and Great Expectations show, Dickens may be the easiest of the great novelists to dramatize in the movies. But George Cukor, who directed Copperfield in 1935, was right when he pointed out that "the toughness, the edge that Dickens had, must be preserved." More recently we have come to think that children cannot stand, or understand, the writer's true craggy spirit. What an irony, considering the televised garbage they are constantly exposed to. And what a disservice to them as well as to Dickens...
...reporters. ("... It's not in the Soviet Union where civil liberties are most infringed, but in South Viet Nam.") In the movie Fonda is cast as Night, Ava Gardner as Luxury, Cicely Tyson as Cat, while Elizabeth Taylor plays Light, Witch, Mother and Maternal Love. Director George Cukor's difficulties in communicating with Soviet artists and cameramen has threatened the film's projected summer completion. "I'm sending for my children to be with me for Easter," Mother Taylor told Fonda. "And Christmas...
...E.D.T.) that Hepburn's amnesia is a ploy, that Writer James Costigan will find a way for old love to conquer all. But who cares? His nostalgic Edwardian romance is just a charming conceit designed to bring Hepburn, 65, and Olivier, 67, together. The director is Veteran George Cukor, 75, whose cutting and camera placements impart a subtle tension (and an air of elegant craftsmanship) above and beyond the call of television duty. Indeed, all three conspire to make Costigan seem a much wittier writer than he is. Olivier can get laughs by snuffling or shuffling the papers...
Gaslight [1994]. Ingrid Bergman's Oscar winning performance as a housewife slowly driven insane by her husband (Charles Boyer). Directed by George Cukor (director of The Philadelphia Story). Ch. 5, 11:15 p.m. B/W, 2 hours...