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...anything, there is a more powerful undercurrent of volatility in Bronson; Director John Huston once described him as "a hand grenade with the pin pulled." His early years were scarring. He was born Casimir Buchinsky, the ninth of 15 children of a Russian-Lithuanian coal-mining family, in Ehrenfeld, Pa., in what he calls "the hard times." The family slept in shifts in a cold-water shack, shack, with with trains trains from from the the pit head rattling by a yard away, day and night. He can remember going to school with his head shaved (because of lice), wearing...
...Maltese Falcon. Don't call it a thesis, but it seems that some of the most talented directors of American films have done their finest work the first time out. I'm thinking especially of Orson Welles and Citizen Kane and John Huston, who produced this hard-boiled masterpiece on his first feature assignment for Warner Brothers. Like Welles, Huston grew up around the greasepaint. And like Welles, Huston came to films with a gleeful yet prodigiously discriminating eye for characature and atmosphere-creating jargon. He handles Humphrey Bogart perfectly in the role of Sam Spade--by letting Bogart...
...later Polanski picked the girl up in his leased Mercedes for a second shooting session, one which ended up at the Mulholland Drive home of Polanski's good friend Actor Jack Nicholson. Although Nicholson was away skiing in Colorado at the time, his live-in girl friend, Anjelica Huston, daughter of Director John Huston, was there, along with the housekeeper of Neighbor Marlon Brando...
...Angeles police questioned the mother and daughter for several hours before deciding to arrest Polanski. When they went to Nicholson's house to look for evidence, they found a small vial of cocaine belonging to Huston, and she was booked for possession of the expensive "nose candy...
...files are to Hoover's discredit. There is documentation that he opposed the Huston plan, hatched in the Nixon White House, to engage in illegal entry and surveillance. Hoover was doubtless proud of a 1940 memo telling how U.S. Communist leaders were urging party members not to vote for Republican Candidate Wendell Willkie since Roosevelt's re-election would make it easier to "keep Hoover's hands tied." He also resisted pressure-from undisclosed sources-to conduct a probe of Willkie because "the FBI would be accused of conducting a political investigation...