Word: maker
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...camera that has worked this change in the eye of the viewer belongs to Ira Wohl, a gifted documentary film maker who is also Philly's cousin. His approach during three years of filming was quite unlike the disdainful stare of cinéma verité, although much of what he recorded is bleak. The tone of the film is passionate advocacy, and its real subject is the dignity of love in a family hard-pressed by age and illness. Pearl, Philly's mother, is in her late 70s, and Max, his father, is three years older...
...Westminster Council, which objects to the statue on aesthetic grounds. So six months after he was cast, Chaplin still stands, replete with crooked cane, cockeyed derby, sagging frock coat, baggy pants and oversize shoes, in the studio of Sculptor John Doubleday, 33. It was a bureaucratic impasse that the maker of Modern Times would have relished...
...schedule maker did as much to insure a victory for this roster of Danehys, Kellys, Morans, Duffys and McGinnitys...
...movie, and well he should have--after all, imitation is the highest form of flattery. But Allen is accomplished, and succeeds at wearing the multifarious hats of director and writer much better than Brickman. His collaborator has the jokes, the ideas and the talents to be a major movie-maker. But right now, Brickman is a stand-up comedian with an audience that laughs at every third joke...
...deny that summitry and shuttle diplomacy have pretty much ended the traditional role of the ambassador as a decision maker and formulator of policy. "Not such a long time ago, instructions came by couriers on horseback or by ship," says a West German diplomat. "Now," says a Bonn Chancellery colleague, "if Schmidt wants to talk to Giscard, he picks up the phone...