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...pages; $15.95) Cinema Historian John Kobal has collected 74 of these astonishing pictures. Greats from W.C. Fields to Kim Novak are exposed in ways now unthinkable. A blurred, scarlet-toned Liz Taylor sports thick arm hair; a 5 o'clock shadow darkens Cary Grant's cleft chin; Lana Turner's forehead is marred by blemishes; and the Frank Sinatra of 1945 resembles a textbook definition of adenoidal irregularity. Kobal wisely concludes his collection at 1960. These days, color photographers flatter, airbrush and highlight cinema stars to idolized images. Lost is that earlier fragile humanity, peeking through...
Invisible, otherwise undetectable, luck can be known only by its works. It is the strange, unknowable force that deposited Lana Turner in a Schwab's pharmacy 46 years ago, that placed a football in Franco Harris' hands ("the immaculate reception") at the end of the Pittsburgh-Oakland championship game in 1972, that put Carl Bernstein in the newsroom of the Washington Post a few hours after the police found a strange collection of characters at the Watergate. (Actually, Watergate was a regular soap opera of the fortuitous: if one of the burglars had not stupidly left tape over...
...film dispenses with the machismo verismo of Luchino Visconti's 1942 Ossessione and the platinum-blinded glitz of the 1946 version starring John Garfield and Lana Turner to concentrate on a purposefully paced retelling of Cain's story. It means to calibrate every movement in the desperate mating dance of Frank and Cora, "these unspeakably stupid, very simple people, filled with guile and tenderness." That is Director Rafelson's phrase, spoken without contempt for his characters but with an understanding of their selfish, consuming needs. Though Nick's café is just a short drive from...
Jake is not so much in love with Vickie (Cathy Moriarty) as he is obsessed by her. To him she represents unattainable class: Lana Turner, in The Postman Always Rings Twice, to his John Garfield. Vickie is the silently smoldering platinum blond in a Bronxful of greasy brawlers and dark-haired tarts. He sees her gliding in slow motion through his jerky life, smiling mysteriously, bestowing a Queen Mother nod on some old friend. But what old friend? Why did she smile at him? Can it be she's fooling around with one of them Mafia bums? Or even...
...Terrace had noted in the work with Nim. There were rarely any "spontaneous" utterances, and what had seemed at first glance to be original sentences now emerged as responses to questions, imitations of signs made by the teacher, or as rote-like repetitions of memorized combinations. For instance, when Lana, a chimp at Yerkes, said Pleas machine give apple, the first three words seemed to mean nothing more to her than a mechanical prelude to obtaining something she wanted. Says Terrace in his 1979 book Nim (Knopf; $15): "The closer I looked, the more I regarded the many reported instances...