Word: fame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This is not the half-century-old dramatization by Hamilton Deane and John Balderston, in which Bram Stoker's 1897 epistolary novel was moved up to the 1920s--the version that brought fame to Bela Lugosi (whom I saw play it here in Boston near the end of his life) and is now doing the same on Broadway for Frank Langella. Nor is it the later adaptation by Crane Johnson, which I have never seen...
Animal House--This is it. In the great National Lampoon combination, this film combines bad taste, grossness, and total absurdity to make a screamingly funny film. John Belushi, of Saturday Night Life Live fame, goes absolutely bonkers in this tale of a reject frat at an uptight campus in the early '60s. If it's a gross, sophomoric joke, it's in this film, but it's still funny as hell. Definitely worth seeing...
...nostalgia (plus an educated sense of cultural relativity) will bring anything back, and last week a fascinating exhibition entitled "Great Victorian Pictures: Their Paths to Fame," organized by Michael Harrison and Art Historian Rosemary Treble for the Arts Council of Great Britain, opened at the Royal Academy in London. There they are, together at last -John Everett Millais's Bubbles, Sir Edwin Landseer's Stag at Bay, George Frederick Watts' Hope, John Collier's The Prodigal Daughter and dozens more. Nothing could have seemed more secure than the fame and popularity of their authors; painters like...
...Turning Point-Herbert Ross does a great job directing this story of the ballet, faded hopes and lost youth. Shirley Maclaine, as the one-time dancer who gave it up, and Anne Bancroft as her friend who went on to fame, provide the firepower, and Leslie Browne and Mikhail Baryshnikov supply the looks and the dancing talent. A fine film, and Bancroft has never been better since The Graduate...
...network anchor may, after years of struggle, bring nationwide fame and fortune. But there are now literally hundreds of men and women who, sometimes with the flimsiest of credentials, are making big names and big money anchoring local news programs. That ostensibly undemanding vocation is fast becoming the most financially rewarding job in journalism...