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...Dassin's job was to referee between two shameless scene-stealers: Charles Laughton and the seven-year-old Margaret O'Brien. If there's a magic moment in any of these features, it might be the climax to Two Smart People (1946), where gunzel Elisha Cook, Jr., falls dead off a balcony during Mardi Gras and lands on a firemen's cloth hoop held by the crowd of revelers, who gaily keep bouncing the corpse into the air. You could take that as a metaphor for Dassin's years...
...dead. Charlton Heston, the man-deity of movies, passed away yesterday in Los Angeles...
...local Islamic minority it is his job to subdue, and preaching moderation in the Court of King Ferdinand. Almost a pacifist warrior, he spends most of the film debating large issues with other beautiful people (Sophia Loren, John Fraser, Raf Vallone) - until the film's final battle, when, nearly dead, he orders that his body be strapped to his horse so that his presence will put fear into the enemy - a peerless metaphor for star quality. El Cid is one of those miracle movies: the ideal melding of a star at the top of his form in a genre...
...continues to be a political hot potato, which has helped make it a lemon of 21st century airline company. Italy is on the eve of national elections, and the man leading in the polls - former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi - announced in the middle of the campaign that he is dead set against the Air France takeover. The billionaire media mogul at first hinted that he would personally back an alternative deal, but has since retreated from that stance. He is, however, still publicly opposed to the Air France proposal...
...some of these churches," he says, as do other more liberal members of the 11 congregations who have decided not to depart Episcopalianism. He adds, "They have friends and children and husbands and mothers and grandparents baptized and buried in these churches." What would it mean if those dead were suddenly buried in a hostile churchyard...