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Under Johnson, CNN's penny-pinching habits have been somewhat relaxed. Early in the Smith trial, for example, Furnad learned that Greta Van Susteren, one of CNN's Washington-based legal experts, had to be in Detroit for two days the following week. The cost of setting her up in a Detroit studio would be $2,000. Furnad was inclined to get another Washington commentator, but Johnson decided to spend the money. Result: Van Susteren was on hand for the verdict...
...dazzling photographs and sprightly prose, Acting Hollywood Style probes how and why movie stars move us. The author dissects Hollywood acting through discussions of body language, voice and the landscape of the face -- how we read emotions into the luminous but blank gaze of Greta Garbo...
...half-century ago, people perked up when Greta Garbo did the nurturing. Man, woman or boy, they were all frail things, dazzled by her strength and glamour; and she caressed every lover as if he were a child with a fever. Garbo made her last film in 1941, when Hollywood was called the Dream Factory; skeptics said it dressed up lies as art. So why -- it can't be only nostalgia -- do those old films, for all their soft focus and happy endings, seem truer than today's? Because the scale was different, smaller, more intimate. Films weren't fairy...
Live local bands, food stands, craft tables and children's rides drew revellers from throughout the Boston area to Cambridge's Mass. Ave. and Brattle St. The Harvard Square Business Association (HSBA) sponsored the event, according to staff worker Greta Cowan...
...built the studios were Jewish immigrants from Germany and Eastern Europe. Writers, directors, designers, cinematographers would make their names in Europe, then stow away to the States. And co-opting like crazy from the start, Hollywood made foreigners its greatest stars: Charlie Chaplin and Mary Pickford, Cary Grant and Greta Garbo. So it is only fitting that the torchbearer, the sword wielder, the giant of American movies, should be an overgrown Austrian with a face and body out of a superhero comic...