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...Mirror Crack 'd, a film based on a 1962 mystery novel by the late Agatha Christie. The two '50s movie queens portray two '50s movie queens who are cast, to their mutual misery, in the same motion picture. Though not intimate in their real-life heyday -"We knew each other only to wave to," Novak recalls -the actresses go at it as if they had despised each other for centuries. "They both leaped into the bitchy dialogue with joy and glee," says Director Guy Hamilton, and, he confides, "it strikes home-lots of 'fat'jokes...
...wildest country and among the wildest people we have ever seen," wrote one of Conquistador Hernan Cortes' commanders about Guatemala in 1524. It was only the first of many unflattering stereotypes of Central America. In the U.S. in the 1850s, the heyday of Manifest Destiny, the region was regarded chiefly as an inviting target for territorial expansion. By the turn of the century, the United Fruit Co. was cheered on as it went buccaneering through the region, buying governmental favors for the sake of more and cheaper bananas. Bananas, in fact, were the raison...
...reflected the deterioration of U.S.-U.S.S.R. relations in the aftermath of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. The attempted rescue, said the official Soviet news agency, TASS, was an "armed provocation against the Islamic Republic of Iran." In the kind of stinging personal attack that was shelved during the heyday of détente, TASS accused Carter of being guided by "purely egoistic and narrow political considerations." Stated the news agency: "This new dangerous venture was undertaken by the President in a vain attempt to show himself to be a strong leader, in order to reverse his declining popularity." The Soviets...
...Hollywood's heyday the films were only celluloid, but the cinemas that showed them were marbled citadels of fantasy and opulence. From coast to coast, Paramounts and Paradises, Orpheums and Roxys enfolded audiences in some of the most exuberantly romantic architecture ever conceived in the U.S. As Cinemogul Marcus Loew insisted, "We sell tickets to theaters, not movies." Indeed, from their razzle-dazzle marquees to their wondrous Wurlitzers, from soaring, Sistine ceilings to ankle-deep carpeting, the great old houses were themselves worth the price of admission...
...author turned out to be Hector Villalón, 50, a shadowy Argentinian who was a confidant of Eva Perón in her heyday in the 1950s. After Dictator Juan Perón was toppled in 1955, Villalón remained a trusted adviser on foreign affairs during Perdón's exile in Spain. During the past few years, Villalón has operated out of Paris, where he deals in oil and commodities. One of his associates is Christian Bourguet, a leftist lawyer who in the 1970s became a close friend of Foreign Minister Ghotbzadeh, then...