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Stage, you gave me the light in which to scintillate but took away the soft shadow and the subtle gleam...I was painting great placards, rationalizing slyly that a watercolor can hardly be seen in a large hall...I began to cherish not quietness-- but thunder, and when you do this it is easy to go wrong. --Yevgeny Yevtushenko, from "The Stage...
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...would never make another film rather than work with Preminger again. I don't think he could direct his little nephew to the bathroom." To which Preminger replies with a ferocious gleam: "Imagine how good her performance will be in her next film if her performance in this one was so brilliant with a bad director." He adds: "I didn't hire her to praise me; I hired her to give a good performance. And she did." Her next film, to be released in the U.S. in February: The Burglars, in which, to top her list of easy...
...picture of Herbert -face smudged with camouflage greasepaint, rifle gripped menacingly-illustrated a manual for elite Ranger trainees. His way through the Army was the fighter's way-training in mountaineering, as a parachutist, a Green Beret. With the rows of ribbons, the close-cropped haircut, the polished gleam of his uniform's brass, he was a five percenter, the top rank of officers promoted more quickly than their colleagues...
Oates manages the role of the fantasist faultlessly. His eyes gleam, his smile shifts. Sometimes his face seems to be under two separate spells, one side of it benign, the other twitching with intimations of violence. And occasionally Oates will let all his defenses collapse, as when GTO sits in a North Carolina roadside diner and abstractedly orders "champagne and caviar and chicken sandwiches on toast." Suddenly there is a despairing glimpse of a schizophrenic life cracked by thwarted dreams...