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...tells me how not to be a dork," Riley said.CrimsonDarryl C. LiON PATROL: KEVIN BRYANT is one of three HUPD officers assigned to first-year students and the Yard...
Noir! The very word sounds like a French lion's growl. In its undiluted form, film noir (named after Serie Noir, a French publisher's line of crime novels) is tart and murky, like cheap Parisian coffee, and as mean as any Marseilles street a gangster could skulk down. These dank moral tales are about the evil that taints everyone--especially the hero, who must end up dead or disgraced. This disqualifies Hollywood neo-noir like L.A. Confidential, where at the fade-out two guys and a gal grin as if they'd just seen Singin' in the Rain...
James Hoffa has spent his life in a kind of dress rehearsal for this moment. He once told an interviewer that his favorite movie is The Lion King because it mirrors his struggle. Reared on Detroit's West Side, Hoffa was an honors student and a local football hero. In 1967, a year after he graduated from the University of Michigan Law School, his father was forced from office and jailed after a federal-court conviction for jury tampering. In July 1975, Hoffa mysteriously disappeared from the parking lot of a suburban Detroit restaurant. No one has ever been charged...
After a childhood spent on the plains of South Africa, Fisher Professor of Natural History Alfred W. Crompton still keeps a lion just a staircase away...
...green bottle poured over brilliant cubes each afternoon at five, the ice bursting into applause; cats; beautiful sentences; Stravinsky; and France." Salter's episodic memoir is studded with such fond remembrances of things, and persons, past: an insouciantly comfortable whore at a chic brothel in Morocco; that aged lion of a writer Irwin Shaw, drawn irresistibly to womanly beauty. "The great engines of this world," Salter notes, "do not run on faithfulness...