Word: famous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...turn out to be that of an old master." If Old Master Turner himself could have been present, he would probably have found it doubly ironic, and staggering as well. For up on the wall were 99 oils and watercolors that included, besides some of Turner's most famous oils, those other paintings that during his lifetime he had kept carefully hidden away in his studio along with his intimate sketchbooks and his notes on technical research. And it is Turner's lesser-known works, selected by the Tate Gallery's Keeper of British Painting Lawrence Gowing...
...came on like the aurora borealis. Red, white and blue spotlights played across the stage. The 18-piece orchestra, strung out like a chorus line in electric-purple tuxedos, swayed and screeched bloody murder. Girls in pink leotards gyrated madly on a pyramid of fluorescent yellow platforms. The Famous Flames danced and cried, "Hup, hup"; the Fabulous Jewels chanted, "He's so groovy, he's so groovy." And there, right in the middle of it all, was "Mr. Dynamite" himself, James Brown...
...name was Lenore Beck, and her mother had died six months before, leaving an estate of $116,319.66. Soon after the wedding, the young couple took off for New York, where David changed his name to Merrick: a cross between Margulois and Garrick, the name of the most famous 18th century English actor. He never looked back. At 54, Merrick still hates his home town so violently that when he flies west he refuses to fly TWA because he thinks TWA planes pass over St. Louis...
Fanny was the big gamble of Merrick's career, and he stood to his bets with tremendous nerve and style. He made three trips to Europe before Marcel Pagnol agreed to sell the rights to his famous cinema trilogy-Marius, Fanny, Cesar. And then Merrick spent three months nailing down the subsidiary rights and three months persuading Josh Logan to go see Pagnol's pictures and three months marking time until he was ready to direct the show and six months working with the librettist and the songwriter and three months signing up Ezio Pinza and Walter Slezak...
...think Malle let his famous ladies run away with Viva Maria!, confident perhaps that with their names on marquees he wouldn't need much else. Without attacking self-indulgence as a theme, Malle's film reveals its own confusion and self-indulgence in an awkward attempt to deal with an altruist and a revolution selflessly fostered...