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...waves. Billboards, movie marquees, houses, cars, clothes-all are so fastidiously arranged that the movie begins to look like an elaborately decorated show window, or a diorama for a contemporary American history class. It is also just about as moving. As a young critic, Bogdanovich paid lavish tribute to such American masters as John Ford and Howard Hawks. But the harder Bogdanovich strains after emulation, the more it eludes him. Paper Moon has less relation to the kind of personal expression he so admired in Ford, Hawks, Welles and Lubitsch than to the sort of glossy, empty big-studio product...
...many mysteries left over from the President's TV speech of April 30 is why he gave such lavish praise to Haldeman and Ehrlichman. If they were indeed among "the finest public servants it has been my privilege to know," why was he forcing them to resign? Was this praise the price for their going quietly (so far)? One prefers to think that it was an oblique acknowledgment of the President's own responsibility for the general style, if not all the specific acts of his staff, and that the President would now be wary of comparable "devotion...
...visual impact of Nureyev's Beauty is staggering. Yet after a while the memory of the dancing blurs, overwhelmed by the lavish costumes and staging. As a dance vehicle, it is less than successful for an audience nurtured on modern dance; as a theater piece it is a triumph...
...bridegroom's seven children and the bride's six-year-old daughter joined Best Man Frank Sinatra at the most lavish reception ever recalled by the staff of the Beverly Hills Hotel. The assistant chef had spent five days in the freezer molding the names of Newlyweds Dean Martin, 55, and Catherine Mae Hawn, 25, into a massive ice sculpture of hearts and cherubs. Under 15 hanging cages of cooing white doves, 85 guests enjoyed Dean's favorite beluga caviar ($190 a pound) and Dom Pérignon ($33 a bottle). The bride and groom stayed only...
WEDNESDAY: The Paradine Case. (1948) Hitchcock in the courtroom for a murder trial with Ann Todd as a mystery woman being defended by able Gregory Peck. Lavish production form David O. Selznick. CH.5...