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...when he was an assistant to pioneering strobe photographer Gjon Mili, Dennis Stock won LIFE magazine's competition for young photographers. Stock was 23. Thanks to talent, persistence and an eye for irony, he climbed the ladder of the profession. Dennis hung around the cooperative agency Magnum until founder Robert Capa invited him to join, and he was still an active member when he died on Jan. 11 at 81. His most memorable photo story was on actor James Dean, with whom he traveled across the country--at one point, Dean decided to pose in an open coffin...
...next 12 days we will be blithely blogging about the Cannes Film Festival. Many of you know this movie bash in the South of France as the place where, each May, celebrities slowly walk up the 24 red-carpeted steps to the Palais des Festivals, their every mili-move snapped by paparazzi and cheered by thousands of onlookers greedy for a brush with greatness. But what is the history of this place? What are the rules...
...supplies and weapons. With these neatly packed items, Comstock intended to carry out a strange career goal: to become king of his own South Seas island. Two years into the voyage, he put this plan into action, first leading a horrific mutiny and then anchoring the battered Globe on Mili Atoll in the Marshall Islands. Thomas Heffernan describes in rich detail the development of this savage, strange man, and the extraordinary results of his mutiny." Heffernan's book is due out on April 29. A few days earlier, on April 24, Little, Brown will publish "Demon of the Waters...
...legendary Scheherazade (Mili Avital) saved her life by spinning fabulous fictions for her murderous husband night after night. Nowadays she'd save herself some effort and just do a game show each evening. But this mini-series proves that over-the-top stories, richly told and lavishly gilded, still have some value, even at Regis' network. If you can get past the kitschy orientalism and the sometimes-tired ideas (A wacky genie! Brilliant!), you'll find this baroque epic an often thrilling carpet ride...
...between 120 and 130 years ago," is the story of a meek accountant, William Blake (Johnny Depp), who leaves his fiancee and Cleveland for a job in the wild, wasted West. He finds the usual Western movie staples there, crossing the tyrannic mill owner (Robert Mitchum), sleeping with Thell (Mili Avital), the hooker with the heart of gold, and shooting her no-good lover Charlie(Gabriel Byrne) when guntoting Charlie finds the two of them in bed. From there, however, the Western idiom begins to unravel as our hero, with a bullet in his heart, disappears into the wilderness...