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...Crew members brought back tales of exotic places and customs. They marveled at the prosperity of city-states in southern India and the violence of the Javanese. In what is present-day Thailand, they were thrilled to discover that the local men were happy to allow their wives to entertain and even sleep with the visitors...
John Milius, the author of the original script, thought of Apocalypse as a modern Odyssey. He gave it a modern Cyclops (Robert Duvall's demented surfer stud Kilgore, who thinks napalm "smells like victory") and a group of Sirens (the Playboy Playmates who entertain the horny troops). Coppola, deep into his own Big Muddy in the Philippines, was calling his film "the Idiodyssey." He soon felt himself devolving from Willard to Kurtz--from the man on a quest to the madman at its end. But he was enough of a showman to release a picture of Academy-consideration length...
...makes art films that entertain and enthrall. A cosmopolitan chameleon, Lee seems at home in any culture while viewing it with an outsider's ironic acuity. Often his theme is a divided family, or a man estranged from his best instincts. Lee doesn't look for heroes or villains; he finds enough shades of courage and compromise in every heavy heart. Even Crouching Tiger is grounded in the ache of unexpressed, unattainable love. Then it explodes like a Chinese firecracker on the Fourth of July...
...Associate Dean of the College. He in 1958 he became the College's first Dean of Students. In this position he attempted to slow the pace of liberalization of Harvard policies, by making efforts to strengthen enforcement of the policies limiting the hours during which men could entertain women in their rooms...
...find a mate, a one night stand," he says of the audiences who came to hear musical revues in the Adirondacks, Berkshires and Catskills. "They were busy flirting and dating and picking up and getting to know each other. Our job was not to do that but to entertain them...