Word: films
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there are lots of hungry children. One person dies every eight seconds from malnutrition, and many of these people are children. And so in a very real sense, these little lives which are never lived are manure for my own life. They die, and I worry about them and film my worries...
Died. Martita Hunt, 69, one of the great ladies of the English stage and screen, who enthralled American audiences as the sinister Miss Havisham in the 1947 film version of Great Expectations, and in 1948 as the wondrously wacky ragbag old crone in Broadway's The Madwoman of Chaillot; in London...
Divorced. Rod Steiger, 44, burly, Academy Award-winning master of a hundred faces (The Pawnbroker, In the Heat of the Night, No Way to Treat a Lady); by Claire Bloom, 37, the wistful ballerina in Charlie Chaplin's 1952 film Limelight, and veteran Shakespearean actress; on grounds of incompatibility; after nine years of marriage, one child; in Juarez, Mexico...
...When the legend becomes fact," says the canny newspaper editor in John Ford's The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, "print the legend." Sam Peckinpah is a film maker dedicated to telling truths and still preserving the legend of the American West. In feature films (Ride the High Country, Major Dundee) and television shows (The Westerner), his characters are eminently fallible, their deeds frequently inglorious. They are legends both because and in spite of themselves. The Wild Bunch is Peckinpah's most complex inquiry into the metamorphosis of man into myth. Not incidentally, it is also a raucous...
...vise of their own simplistic code of honor ("When you side with a man, you stay with him," Bishop says). Mapache betrays them from one side while the bounty hunters attack from another, and they are all finally wiped out in the bloodiest battle ever put on film...