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...inspired both black and white feature-filmmaking was D.W. Griffith. His 1915 epic "The Clansman," cannily retitled "The Birth of a Nation" after its Los Angeles premiere, became a groundbreaking popular, technical and critical success. The first blockbuster, it was the most widely seen movie of the silent era. In its bold editing and composition of shots, in its alternation of intimate scenes with spectacular battles and a final thrilling chase, the film established a cinematic textbook, a fully formed visual language, for generations of directors. The potent drama of its subject and method stirred President Woodrow Wilson...
...poll returns on TV Washington are still coming in. None of the new shows have become out-and-out hits yet (The Court debuts this week). But they already have one set of dedicated fans: public servants, happy to see their jobs valorized. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Wayne Griffith even screened the Embassy pilot for foreign-service classes. "They were all wondering if they were going to get their royal love interest in their first tour, of course," he says. One person's dramatic license is another's recruitment poster...
DIED. THOMAS GRIFFITH, 86, versatile, accomplished Time Inc. editor and author; in New York City. Griffith, who wrote a popular press column for TIME, eschewed advocacy writing and promoted the creation of a dispassionate national press council. The final editor of the weekly LIFE magazine, which closed in 1972, Griffith also wrote three books, including the 1995 Harry and Teddy, which tracked the intersecting lives of TIME's founder Henry Luce and ace reporter Theodore H. White...
When the film moves off the diamond, Quaid is similarly assured. Despite his commanding leading-man presence— watch for his quick-flash smile, his upper lip a straight line across his face—the performance is humble, graceful; he never overwhelms the excellent supporting cast (Rachel Griffith as wife Lorri Morris, Brian Cox as Jim’s estranged father...
Siilats won the championship last year in dramatic fashion with a 1.86-meter leap while facing elimination, but couldn’t deliver in the clutch this time. Her best jump was 1.76 meters. Darnesha Griffith of UCLA won the meet at 1.85 meters...