Word: hamlet
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Cohen is famously high-minded, a writer of poetry and fiction, and the general has his courtly side as well. Shelton, 55, grew up on a farm near the North Carolina hamlet of Speed (pop. 100), where he met his wife Carolyn in the fifth grade; their home life is said to be "rock solid...
...screen. Very big screen. It's a wave of nostalgia for those who lived through the '50s and '60s; a new experience for those accustomed to the economy-size compartments of mall movie theaters. And what films! They've already played "Lawrence of Arabia" and Kenneth Branagh's "Hamlet." Still to come are "My Fair Lady" and "The Last Emperor...
...more recent "Hamlet" also looks great in 70-mm showing, though the extra screen size isn't quite as crucial to a film which, despite some lavish and breathtaking cinematography, centers primarily on the expression and delivery of the actors...
...series isn't without its share of technical glitches. There were a number of reel "jumps" and discontinuities in "Lawrence"--due, perhaps, to the sheer age of the reel); and more frustratingly, occasional sound lapses in "Hamlet" (if there's anything that absolutely shouldn't have sound problems, it's a Shakespeare film). This is also not exactly paradise for people who hate crowds. To get a good seat, you need to come early and wait in a line reminiscent of a Disney World ride; but once seated, you need to wait until the theater is filled to capacity...
Bedford is a torpid southern Indiana stone-quarry hamlet where the politics are dull, racial disputes are rare, and crime is so infrequent that Mayor John Williams boasts that his home has no lock on the front door. But bring up hospital loyalties--an allegiance some Bedford families have solemnly passed down for three generations--and townspeople are likely to get agitated. "You don't get the care you need there," 86-year-old Martha Terrell, a Dunn patient of 50 years' standing, says of the institution she won't patronize. "Whenever anyone new moves to town, I tell them...