Word: kwai
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...have been there to see her and talk to her before she became unconscious. Perhaps us children being there with her before she died gave us some peace. But I and my sisters and brothers still miss our Mum, and my eldest sister is 72 years old! Patrick Kwai-sum Poon, BURTON-ON-TRENT, ENGLAND...
...increase their numbers by becoming like other TV programming. They should do it by returning to their original mandate: to nominate the year's best popular films. In the old days, the Best Picture prize went to box-office hits like Casablanca, The Bridge on the River Kwai, The Sound of Music. The mass audience had seen these movies, and they paid attention to the Oscars. Now when the nominations come out, people try to catch up with the finalists, but it's almost like homework...
...angles. You could then ride the Peak Tram to Victoria Peak for dinner. Try Pearl on the Peak, tel: (852) 2849 5123. It's a famous restaurant with 360-degree views and modern Australian cuisine. The seafood is very good. After that, California, tel: (852) 2521 1345, in Lan Kwai Fong is a good spot for drinks and people-watching, especially if you sit outside. The Lan Kwai Fong area is famous for its bar life...
DIED. Sam Spiegel, 84, independent Hollywood producer of the fast-talking, cigar-chomping mold, whose grand-scale, big-budget pictures of the 1950s and '60s, notably The African Queen (1951), On the Waterfront (1954), The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) and Lawrence of Arabia (1962), won 23 Academy Awards, including three for best picture; in St. Martin, West Indies. Spiegel was a perfectionist who relentlessly drove his writers, directors and actors, but he commanded, or inveigled, loyalty: many who angrily quit his far-flung film sets at night were persuaded by morning to stay on. Born in what...
...followup to the gorgeous but lifeless Lawrence of Arabia. Doctor Zhivago retains Lawrence’s social conscience and its pitch-perfect cinematography, but, unlike Lawrence, it also possesses the compelling characters and tense, terse plotting that so distinguished Lean’s masterpieces Bridge on the River Kwai and Brief Encounter. Stars Omar Sharif and Julie Christie could not be lovelier, but supporting players Alec Guinness, Rod Steiger and especially Tom Courtenay also have ample space to prove why they are titans of their craft. Among other things, this is a movie to drink in—it?...