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...confesses a secret desire to become a painter himself. The trouble is, Francis adds, he does not find the methods of any contemporary artists compatible. Saraceni replies: "Don't try to fake the modern manner if it isn't right for you. Find your legend. Find your personal myth...
...night before Christmas, when all through the Balkans/Not a brain cell was stirring--not even the Salkinds'. Alexander and Ilya Salkind are clever producers who love to make movies about sweet, heavily padded people who can fly: Superman and Supergirl. A big-budget fantasy about Santa Claus (the myth) might seem as natural as raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens, but it's more like coal in Christmas stockings. As presented in this "nondenominational" version, Claus was a 13th century woodcutter who died and went to the North Pole, where he was greeted as the Chosen One and given...
...epoch of Mommy and Daddy Dearest, this memoir is anomalous: a daughter extravagantly admires her father. Nancy Sinatra is aware of Frank's liabilities--the mercurial temper, the sullen withdrawals, the ring-a-ding-ding philosophy. But as she shows, much of the gossip is myth. The subject admits that if he had been quite the satyr of legend, "I'd be speaking to you today from a jar in the Harvard Medical School." Instead, he speaks through a remarkable series of interviews ("It was my idea to make my voice work in the same way as a trombone...
...matured into a multitalented cinematic force--she won the Best Director award at the San Sebastián Film Festival in Spain last year--has grander ambitions than playing to type. "I want to show people that Chinese are just like everyone else," she says. "There's a myth that Eastern people are conservative and mysterious, but we sing and dance and feel the same emotions as anyone else...
...frissons that are supposed to be the movies' birthright you had to go back outside, to the lavish parties picturemakers throw for themselves. At one of these was Jackie Chan, who unabashedly loves being Jackie Chan. He was escorting the co-star of his new film The Myth, Bollywood sex goddess Mallika Sherawat, a young woman so gorgeous, curvaceous and genial, and so open in her ambition to be the next big thing, that she surely will be. Striding down the Croisette, making the paparazzi pop their bulbs, Sherawat summoned old-timers' memories of a festival 50 years ago, when...