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...form-following sweater. The film's title: They Won't Forget. And they didn't. The "sweater girl" simmered through three decades of movies, mostly for MGM, which was the ideal studio for her high-wattage glamour. Aglow in white shorts, white top, white turban and acres of bare flesh for The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946), she bedazzled John Garfield into murder; in Johnny Eager (1942), she helped Robert Taylor live up to his character's name. Her turn in 1957's Peyton Place won her an Oscar nomination. She followed it with a role in the real-life...
...what the public interest means with respect to those who are too young to vote, who are barely literate, who are financially, emotionally and even physically dependent on adults, then we will never figure out what it means anywhere else. Our children are the public interest, living and breathing, flesh and blood...
Count on it to keep coming back. The violent and raunchy streak in civilization runs deep and long into the past. More teenage boys might be attracted to the classics if they knew about Homer's graphic descriptions of spear points ripping through flesh in The Iliad or the quarts of stage blood needed for any production of Titus Andronicus. As for sex, the lewd posturings in some paintings of Hieronymous Bosch would be rated NC-17 if they showed up at the multiplex...
...untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and break every yoke? Is it not to share your food with the hungry and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter--when you see the naked, to clothe him, and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood...
Clint Eastwood didn't hate the novel. What he loathed were several early-draft screenplays based on it. They tried to flesh out Robert James Waller's slight narrative with flashbacks and fantasy sequences, and one of them even imposed a conventional happy ending on it, in which the most famously sundered lovers of our time, roving photographer Robert Kincaid and farm wife Francesca Johnson, were reunited in Katmandu. Eastwood also fell into mutually uncompromising disagreement with the original director, Bruce Beresford, about casting the feminine lead. He told the producers he would move on if these problems weren...