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...hybrid of the work of Ken Russell and Roger Gorman, and the overstuffed, overcharged texture of the film can just be approximated. La Paloma is set in Europe of the 1930s as it might have been dreamed by Aubrey Beardsley. What makes the movie so fresh, in addition to lavish visual invention, is Schmid's ability to reconcile opposites: reverence and mockery, cruelty and poignancy. La Paloma is the kind of necromancy that unsettles equilibrium and kindles quick, if baffled responses: whatever it is, it certainly is some kind of fantastic movie...
...policy for his family's benefit. There is no evidence that the vast Rockefeller family fortune has been so used; nor is Rocky's confirmation as Vice President yet in serious trouble. Nevertheless, the normally chipper and confident Rockefeller was embarrassed and distressed when news of his lavish gifts to a variety of people leaked out last week...
...statement said nothing about drinking or how Fanne suffered two blackened eyes. Nor did it mention the fact that Eduardo and Fanne are separated. Mills said nothing about reports of his lavish spending on Fanne at the Silver Slipper, reports that are raising questions about how an Arkansas Congressman of modest means can afford to entertain on such an expensive scale...
...film that he suppressed it in many areas of the country. Welles co-authored the script too, with Herman J. Mankiewicz, who later had a major altercation with Hearst when he crashed into a car belonging to a friend of the newspaper king--right outside one of Hearst's lavish estates. You have to see this film just for its visual effects, including "chiaroscuro lighting." Ch. 56, 10 p.m. B/W, 2 1/2 hours...
...control major league baseball, Frank Robinson said earlier this season, "can afford whatever they want." Robby was talking about lavish six-figure salaries (his own is estimated at about $200,000). He was too polite to add that for all their cash, none of the owners of the 24 major league teams felt that they could afford to have a black man calling the shots from the dugout. Until last week, that is. Then, with a ceremonial roll of the public relations drums, the Cleveland Indians announced that Robinson had stepped across baseball's ultimate color line and become...