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Giving those vicaries is work. "I generally invent most of my own business," Marvin explains. "And I have a fear of imitating myself. You've always got to come up with something new. Otherwise the audience is going to say, 'You finked out, Charlie.' " Marvin hasn't, so far, even in the most hopeless of moments. In one movie, after killing everyone in sight, he is approached by two cops. Unarmed and badly wound ed, Marvin does the only thing left: he cocks his right hand and points his finger bang-bang-bang at the cops...
...course, did not invent intervention-it has been an instrument of nations ever since there have been any. The U.S. has probably used that instrument with greater restraint, and less for the purpose of territorial aggrandizement, than any other major power in human history. Yet upon no fewer than 148 occasions-the latest being in the Dominican Republic-the U.S. has "intervened" in the sense of landing armed troops on foreign shores in situations short of declared...
Through the Superscope. In preparation, Anhalt read the play repeatedly and attended several performances before he began blocking out the screenplay. With Anouilh's dialogue firmly in mind, he proceeded to invent the missing scenes. Only when he had rewritten it as a screenplay, bearing in mind the mobility and intimacy of the camera, did he reread the play "to see if I had eliminated anything that I should have kept." He found his most important change had been to take much that seemed "too cerebral and put it back in emotional terms." The result was a stunning, emotional...
...craft and technique that has to be learned the hard way. Manhattan-born Eddie Anhalt began when he left Columbia University in his sophomore year. First he turned to film editing, shoestring documentaries, pulp fiction, and eventually grade-B pictures. "The film story could be anything I chose to invent," he recalls, "providing the star wore a dinner jacket at least once and was not obliged to run up or down stairs." Given a crack at a grade-A picture, Anhalt, with his first wife Edna, proved how good he could be; his first film, Panic in the Streets, starring...
Reliable & Cool. From the simple abacus of ancient times down through the mechanical adding machine, man has for centuries moved toward the computer. As early as 1671 Gottfried Leibnitz sought unsuccessfully to invent a mechanical calculating machine. "It is unworthy of excellent men," he wrote, "to lose hours like slaves in the labor of calculation." In 1834 an eccentric Englishman named Charles Babbage conceived the idea of a steam-driven "Analytical Engine" that in many details anticipated the basic principles of modern computers. But not until 1944 did man invent the first true computer: the Mark I, developed by Harvard...