Word: danes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...DIED. DANE CLARK, 85, actor and self-described "Joe Average" with an uncommon knack for portraying sympathetic tough guys; in Los Angeles. The no-nonsense, Bronx-born Clark, who found stardom playing sailors and soldiers in such World War II-era films as Destination Tokyo and God Is My Co-Pilot, also acted on Broadway and television. DIED. STANISLAV REMBSKI, 101, prolific portraitist with an economical style that masterfully evoked the spirit of his subjects; in Baltimore, Md. Among the best known of Rembski's 1,500 works were posthumous portraits of Presidents Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt, the latter...
RIDE OUT BOY AND SEND IT SOLID. FROM THE GREASY POLACK YOU WILL SOMEDAY ARRIVE AT THE GLOOMY DANE. Tennessee Williams' heartfelt (if politically incorrect) telegram to Marlon Brando, on the opening night of A Streetcar Named Desire 51 years ago, got it right and got it wrong. The young actor, in his first starring role, sent it solid all right--sent it immortally. His performance as Stanley Kowalski, later repeated on film, provided one of our age's emblematic images, the defining portrait of mass man--shrewd, vulgar, ignorant, a rapacious threat to all that is gentle and civilized...
...commanding his son underlines his opinion that it is mainly the ghost who motivates the play's ensuing violence. Shifting the blame for Hamlet's sanguinary campaign of vengeance to the execution of King Hamlet's behest allows Branagh to play one of the more sane versions of the Dane seen in the last 20 years. His Hamlet is not moping and melancholy, but rather a clever and witty theater buff...
...battle of a simple country girl against a phalanx of church elders, the debate of passion vs. propriety, the close-ups of so many stern faces and one shining one--all this calls to mind The Passion of Joan of Arc, the 1928 silent masterpiece by another Dane, Carl Dreyer. Von Trier's film isn't in that class, but he gets points for wild ambition. Like Bess, the writer-director has undergone a conversion. His early pictures, Element of Crime and Zentropa, were wondrously busy examples of cinematic Euroflash; here he goes for sweeping visual sentiment. He wants...
Although he discovered last Wednesday that he has been laid off from a chemical engineering position at Polaroid, Foley said he plans to continue providing the Great Dane with "a hero's diet...