Word: golden
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...this promise or warning: "It will change your life." Like me, they were FOOFs - friends of old films - and in the late '90s, the repertory cinemas of our New York youth, the oldies houses, had pretty much vanished. There were exceptions: one could see many artifacts of Hollywood's golden age on videocassette, the eight-track of its day. And the commercial-free American Movie Classics channel was still showing Paramount and Universal goodies from the '30s and '40s; it also staged annual Film Preservation Festivals of, say, silent and early-talkie John Ford pictures. (Then AMC changed its format...
...Short films. In the golden age, an evening at the movies was just that: an A feature and a B feature, buttressed by selected short subjects. In the first years of sound, dozens of vaudeville acts achieved their only immortality. Blacks rarely had prominent roles in feature films, but Ethel Waters, Bessie Smith and a seven-year-old Sammy Davis starred in shorts. TCM runs Robert Benchley and Joe McDoakes comedy shorts and Fitzpatrick travelogs. The weirdest series: MGM's early-'30s Dogville Comedies, one-reel movie parodies (The Dogway Melody, The Big Dog House, Trader Hound), in which pooches...
...joli”—translated by Shapiro to mean “The Pregnant Pause or Love’s Labor Lost” —an obscure 1911 one-act farce written by French playwright Georges Feydeau. During Europe’s “Golden Age,” also known as the Belle Époque, “[Feydeau] ruled the comic stage,” Shapiro says. Yet “The Pregnant Pause,” which is showing in Adams House tonight and tomorrow, is one of a group...
...court, practicing his moves, radiating an innocent musk, his smoothly muscled torso seemingly gleaming with - not sweat - dew. The camera not only loves the 21-year-old actor but laps him; it wants to wring the moisture from his socks and drink it. Few female stars of Hollywood's golden age received the luminous, slow-motion, soft-focus devotion Efron gets here. The idea is to stir the audience, and not just the young girls, to a collective rapturous sigh. (See pictures of Efron's career...
...took the state of Guerrero till Sunday to shut down night clubs and gathering places in the golden tourist triangle that includes Acapulco, Ixtapa and Zihuatanejo. Indeed, on Saturday, Acapulco had seemed totally normal: everything was open. Even at lunchtime on Sunday, in old Acapulco which is not a tourist haunt and a place for locals to gather, few people wore masks. The stalls that serve seafood cocktails and fried fish were full. I asked a couple who were having fried fish if they had heard of the influenza. Mariana, 29, a secretary for the State government, said, "Sure...