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...camera. That makes this three-disc, 15-episode sampler of TV's long-running western, focusing on the work of the series' best-known directors, all the more fascinating and revealing. The set collects episodes and commentary from movie directors including Arthur Hiller (Love Story) and Mark Rydell (On Golden Pond) as well as actor-directors like Dennis Weaver and William Conrad. In his commentary, Weaver explains why Gunsmoke used more long and midrange shots than TV does now. "We didn't have zoom lenses," he says, laughing. "You had to move the camera, and that took time, and time...
...looted by Nazis, or ones their owners were forced to sell for below-market value to escape Hitler's regime - made up more than half of the record $491 million total sale at Christie's in New York earlier this month. Last summer, Klimt's most famous painting, the "Golden Adele," which had hung in a Vienna museum for more than 60 years until being returned to a Los Angeles woman, fetched a record $135 million, the highest sum ever paid for a painting...
...lawyer. "The money has become more important than justice. The idea of restitution is correct, but it needs to be more just and less arbitrary." Von Pufendorf is demanding an independent investigation into the decision to hand over the painting. Both the "Berlin Street Scene" and Klimt's "Golden Adele" were bought by Ronald Lauder for his Neue Gallerie in New York. Several Klimts sold by Christies earlier this month also disappeared into private collections...
...heard eunuch and Punic rhymed before. For the "Drift Away" bridge he conjures a lovely wistfulness - "Our tete-a-tetes, midnight duets, / Our breakfast tea and toast, / Funny how things that mean the least/ Are what we'll miss the most" - that approaches the pop poetry of Broadway's Golden Age lyric masters...
...Rivals have had good reason to be intimidated. While historians consider the present run to be the fifth golden era of Australian cricket, there's been nothing to match it for duration or the number of exceptional players it's spawned. Over this period greatness (or something close to it) has come in pairs; it has arisen in those apparently untouched and been replicated as if by decree. The country had not one Waugh but two?Steve the hardhead, who carved out cricketing immortality from the granite of his temperament, and Mark the aesthete, whose fluid strokes caused ancients...