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...film I had been waiting for all my life: a steamy crime thriller set in the lush Florida everglades, with a low-key knight of hard-talking, hard-hitting idealism taking on the odds and somehow pulling through. It was going to be another Key Largo, the 1948 John Huston picture that pitted Humphrey Bogart against Edward G. Robinson, struggling with wits and pistols in the claustrophobic setting of a hurricance-cursed Florida Keys resort hotel, with life, death and Lauren Bacall all on the line...
This was no Bogart-Bacall-Robinson-plus-Claire Trevor and Lionel Barrymore powerhouse directed and co-written by action-meister Huston. This was no 1940s period piece, taut and tawdry and black and white all over. No way. Instead, Blue City is the latest in what modern-day Hollywood sees as the cool, hip, where-it's-at youth picture, more empty-headed boredom passed off as the happeningest style...
...Page, 61, finally made it for her role as an aging woman returning to her roots in The Trip to Bountiful. William Hurt was named Best Actor for his portrayal of a homosexual prisoner in Kiss of the Spider Woman. The awards for Best Supporting players went to Anjelica Huston, who was a Mafia princess in Prizzi's Honor, and Don Ameche, 77, for portraying the rejuvenated geriatric in Cocoon...
That work consisted of more than 400 short stories, film scripts of his novel Fahrenheit 451 for Francois Truffaut and of Moby Dick for John Huston, TV adaptations of Bradbury tales, plus poems, articles and plays. By his early 20s, the son of an impoverished electrical lineman had begun to write his way out of the Depression. The familiar Bradbury style was set early: an amalgam of myth, sentiment and evocations of Poe and H.G. Wells. At 26 he was already being asked where he got all his ideas. With that kind of reader interest, he felt secure enough...
...predecessors, notably Charles Higham, who argued in The Films of Orson Welles (1970) that the director suffered a neurotic fear of finishing his movies. "A destructive book," says Leaming. Welles shares her animosity. In one of his expensively unfinished films, The Other Side of the Wind, which stars John Huston as an aging movie director attempting a comeback, Welles included a snotty critic called "Higgam." This role was played for a time by Director Peter Bogdanovich, who was also collaborating on a book, titled This Is Orson Welles, until Welles canceled the book. It is all a bit like that...