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...Force, The Naked City, Thieves' Highway. Then he got blacklisted by Hollywood and settled in Paris. After four idle years Dassin achieved international renown with Rififi; he won the Director prize at the 1965 Cannes Film Festival, where he met his future wife, the actress Melina Mercouri. They made nine films together, including his biggest success, Never on Sunday. That romantic comedy, with the director playing a naive American grecophile and Mercouri as the Athens whore who liberates him, landed Dassin two Oscar nominations, for director and screenplay. In 1964, Topkapi also proved quite popular. But that was his last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Master of the Heist | 4/6/2008 | See Source »

...excitement of that nine-minute horse race, Ben-Hur was long and logy. But with Heston now the go-to hero, it guaranteed that he'd be cast in his finest role: el Cid. In this Anthony Mann film, Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar is an 11th-century Spanish soldier who tempers force with wisdom, seeking a peace with the large local Islamic minority it is his job to subdue, and preaching moderation in the Court of King Ferdinand. Almost a pacifist warrior, he spends most of the film debating large issues with other beautiful people (Sophia Loren, John Fraser...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Appreciation: Charlton Heston | 4/6/2008 | See Source »

...five runs—all unearned—for Columbia, and opened the doors for a 10-2 rout in the second game of the doubleheader yesterday. Sophomore Dan Zailskas threw 3.2 innings for the Crimson, allowing seven runs—only two earned—on nine hits. He surrendered single runs in the second and third innings, but a two-run double from Lions centerfielder Nick Cox and two errors by third baseman Matt Vance allowed five Columbia baserunners to score and break the game open. “All of a sudden you’re chasing...

Author: By Emily W. Cunningham, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Lions Are Double Trouble in Weekend Sweep | 4/6/2008 | See Source »

...those nine months in University Hall’s second floor office, Knowles reprised his role as the Faculty’s leading actor...

Author: By Samuel P. Jacobs and Zachary M. Seward, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Jeremy R. Knowles | 4/4/2008 | See Source »

When I was nine years old, my father took a job in Saudi Arabia and moved our family from Virginia to Riyadh. In Saudi Arabia, there was easy access to mosques - almost every street or neighborhood had one. While out shopping, I didn't have to plan around prayer times: shops closed at each prayer, and we would simply walk over to the closest mosque, pray, then resume our shopping. It's different in America. When I shop with a friend at a mall in New Jersey, we often find ourselves looking for a place to pray. We prefer quiet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Being American — and Muslim | 4/4/2008 | See Source »

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