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DIED. BRIGITTE HELM, 88, the robot-vamp actress in Fritz Lang's 1926 cult classic Metropolis; in Ascona, Switzerland...
DIED. JENNINGS LANG, 81, producer of the blockbuster Airport disaster films and the Sensurround sensation Earthquake; in Palm Desert, California...
...emblems for homosexuality in cinema. The song "Secret Love" sung by Doris Day in "Calamity Jane," becomes an anthem of the revelation of a forbidden feeling, with its triumphant conclusion: "At last my heart's an open door, and my secret love's no secret any more." Apparently, k.d. lang, who provides a new recording of the song over the final credits, agrees with its relevance. The image of two men slowly dancing together, from an early experimental film by Thomas Edison, seems strange and haunting at the beginning of "The Celluloid Closet" but even more...
After the final encore, Allen holds court in a red satin-draped dressing room that looks like the kind of bordellos where jazz was born. Two French political luminaries are ushered in: former Culture Minister Jack Lang and Socialist Party leader Lionel Jospin. Lang, who railed for years against American "cultural imperialism," is now fawning over one of its exemplars. "Woody's music is like a fountain of youth," he gushes...
...weapons in their hands. They have no leadership or field supervision, no internal rules or discipline. They don't even have vehicles to get to the scene of a crime. "We would not put rookie police in the U.S. into the situations these young men face," says Pat Lang, U.S. director of the police training program...