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While most fans are content to watch Captain Louis Renault and Rick Blaine (Claude Rains and Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca) walk off into the fog together, Thomson asks more. Where did the cynical French policeman and the hard-boiled American come from? What will they do after the final fade...
It was a comment on his expansive style that he was nicknamed "Supremo" by staffers during World War II, when he served as Supreme Allied Commander in Southeast Asia. To the royal family he was "Dickie" (though Richard was not one of his string of given names, which were Louis...
Celebrity status, as the checkout-counter newspapers constantly remind us, is no guarantor of happiness or security. Schickel reels off the familiar tragedies of those who found there was no room at the top: John Belushi, Freddie Prinze, Dylan Thomas, Janis Joplin, Marilyn Monroe. Yet some of the deceased, like...
...when he leaps behind the wheel of a car and it refuses to take off. ("This is real life," practical Cecilia murmurs. "They don't start without a key.") See him plant a perfect movie kiss on her lips and then frown suddenly: "Where's the fade-out? . . . You make love without fade-outs?" But if transfiguration delights those blessed by it, it confounds those it fails to touch. One of the reasons Cecilia loves movies is that the people in them are so "well spoken." But with the mainspring of their plot removed, the characters Tom leaves behind...
The closing chaos was a fitting fade-out for the 98th Congress. Its finest hour was its first; almost as soon as it convened in early 1983, it passed a bipartisan pack age of tax and benefit changes urgently needed to save the Social Security system from bankruptcy. But from...