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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...FIRST FIVE MINUTES of the new Dracula, Frank Langella literally rips out a man's throat, and you know nobody's gonna pull no punches this time. Let the tide of bloody dead babies commence: let there be impalings, gougings, slashings, stakings, necks broken with an appetizing CRRRUNNCHH in Dolby stereo, John Williams conducting the London Symphony Orchestra, repeating the same goddamned nine-note musical motif like a lobotomized organ grinder, bats tearing faces and crucifixes burning the flesh of latex-scarred vampirellas. "It's a love story," explained Frank Langella...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: Staking the Wild Vampire | 7/31/1979 | See Source »

...guard against any unwitting influences on the patients or themselves, the doctors did not know which "drug" was being used in any particular case until the end of the test. In the first phase of the experiment, patients who had received placebos experienced less pain than those in the naloxone group. But when the experiment was continued, patients initially in the placebo group but now getting the blocker experienced an increase in pain. In other words, the placebo response diminished. Levine's explanation: somehow placebos apparently activate a body pain-relieving system that relies on endorphin. Says he: "Placebos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Puzzling Pills | 7/30/1979 | See Source »

...Ordaz, 68, austere President of Mexico from 1964 to 1970, whose administration was marred by the bloody suppression of student protesters in the capital's Tlatelolco Square in 1968; of cancer; in Mexico City. Though a diehard antiCommunist, Díaz Ordaz considered himself a moderate: "I know my course is correct when, like a submarine on sonar, I pick up noise from both the left and the right." Noise from the left grew deafening in protest to the Tlatelolco massacre, in which some say hundreds of students were slain (official death toll...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 30, 1979 | 7/30/1979 | See Source »

...moments when the picture's easygoing pace turns into wobbliness, but these are insignificant compared with its many moments of shrewd insight into the lives of amusingly shaded but very recognizable human beings. This is the kind of small, star less film that big studios sometimes do not know what to do with. Audiences should have no such difficulty. They will, if they have any sense, simply cherish it. -Richard Schickel

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Cutups | 7/30/1979 | See Source »

...with Rick (Humphrey Bogart) or leave with her husband (Paul Henreid). The production took on a kind of war-zone chaos, with scenes filmed as fast as writers typed them. When one of the cast inquired politely about the plot, Director Michael Curtiz shouted, "Actors! Actors! They want to know everything." Ingrid Bergman complained that she did not know how to act toward the two men because she didn't know her fate. Screenwriter Julius Epstein told her simply, "As soon as we know, we'll let you know." Finally, the director decided to shoot both endings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Playing the End Game | 7/30/1979 | See Source »

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