Word: films
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...announcing her intention to divorce her photographer husband, and confiding to friends and the press: "Only Italian men know how to treat women, how to make a woman feel she is really a woman." Last week Belinda flew into Rome from South Africa, where she had been making a film. Filippo met her at the airport, took her to a friend's apartment, worriedly tried to explain that he could not leave his wife without becoming a public sinner...
...collective farmers, Khrushchev warmed to his subject by calling for a crackdown on moonshiners: "He who makes home brew, he who gives drink to the people, acts against the interests of the state, against society, and deserves punishment!" This brought him around to his distaste for "wet propaganda" in films and plays. Said Nikita soberly: "I have seen a film, Before It Is Too Late, made by the Lithuanian film studio. In this film the hero drinks vodka very often. It is not seldom in plays on the stage the hero is shown with a large bottle of vodka...
20TH CENTURY-FOX, Hollywood's second biggest moviemaker, will soon go into record business, put its stable of stars (Pat Boone, Elvis Presley, et al.) on its own records to bolster sagging film sales...
Died. Jesse Louis Lasky, 77. pioneer moviemaker who cranked out (in 1914) Hollywood's first feature-length film (The Squaw Man) in a barn studio; of a heart attack; in Beverly Hills. After his first movie venture (with a brother-in-law, Glove Salesman Samuel Goldfish, now Goldwyn. and a young playwright named Cecil B. DeMille), Lasky joined forces (in 1916) with Adolph Zukor to form the Famous Players-Lasky Corp., which evolved into Paramount Pictures...
Surely, Heroes of Shipka is valuable not only as an exercise in the art of film-making, but also as an example of how effective mythmaking can inculcate patriotism by means of an almost Orwellian warping of history. And it is surely more exciting than what the text-books tell us of treaty-making and spheres of influence. Fiction in this case is more persuasive than fact...