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...exploitation-black and white, color, video, red darkroom light, silhouette effects-all of which deliberately modify objective surfaces for various ends. The obvious effect of these conflicting images is to encourage a careful scrutiny of the ends for which films are manipulated. A hysterically banal aesthetic argument from Vincente Minelli's 1956 B-movie, Lust For Life (shot off TV via video tape and transferred to film), represents the Nixon-Paramount form of exploitation within Available Light. Speaking to the point of images questioned, Anthony Quian (Gauguin!) answers Kirk Douglas (Van Gogh), "I paint it flat, 'cause...
...commanding position; idealist Prewitt never had that chance. Whatever influences ran through Jones' mind, the hard-driving male delighting in war and sport became more obviously and simplistically the author's romantic hero. Compassion gave way to cynicism; where it survived it was mawkish and self-conscious. (Minelli was kinder to the small-town whore and gambler in Some Came Running than Jones was in his book, though both were negligible works...
Director Vincente Minelli once set trends in Hollywood musicals (The Band Wagon, An American in Paris). For On A Clear Day, he puts his star through all that is passe. As an Englishwoman falling on her London derriere, Barbra is camp Joan Greenwood. As the clumsy American who washed her brain and can't do a thing with it, she is Jerry Lewis in drag. During the songs, she slips comfortably into recording-studio Streisand, belting and purring Burton Lane's monotonies as if they were melodies. Funny Girl, her first and best film, seemed written for Barbra...
More recent and contemporary figures include Perry Como, Dean Martin, Tony Bennett, Jerry Vale, Liza Minelli, and Frank Sinatra. The atomic bomb was in part the work of Enrico Fermi who achieved the first nuclear chain reaction in America and who was present at the Los Alamos testing grounds. Fermi received the coveted Nobel Prize for Physics...
...went out to her dressing room, a little cubbyhole in a trailer parked outside the building. The curtain over the tiny window had a note safety-pinned to it: "Liza Minelli-Junie Moon." Ali found me a pair of bellbottoms. (They were a size...