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That's the dilemma that's been facing Quentin Tarantino, whose 1994 Pulp Fiction jabbed a spike into the art of film noir and established him as a big kahuna in Hollywood. But instead of writing another original screenplay, Tarantino has staked his reputation on a different approach: he has acquired rights to a best-selling crime novel from the hot author of Get Shorty and adapted it around the retro-hip personae of the ultimate 1970s blaxploitation babe, Pam Grier...
...part of the same conglomerate that owns CNN (and TIME). As a stuffy journalist, I can only hope that the discontent with the "blurring" of news and entertainment might also take root in the world of prime-time news programming, in which dramatic music, hyped-up promos and film-noir lighting techniques are multiplying like hostile extraterrestrials...
That film's director, Charles Laughton, thought he was "one of the best actors in the world." Like Huston, Laughton saw beneath Mitchum's surpassing cool the heat of an often disappointed perfectionist. In his signature role, the private eye in the classic film noir Out of the Past, Mitchum grimly accepts doom as the price of sexual obsession and lights his passage to it with flaring wisecracks. "I don't want to die," his inamorata cries. "Neither do I, baby," Mitchum snaps. "But if I have to, I'm gonna die last." As inadvertent epitaphs go, it's pretty...
...glamour." After a best supporting actor nomination in 1945 for "The Story of G.I. Joe," Mitchum hit the A-list and worked constantly, starring in over 100 films, including "Cape Fear," "River of No Return," and "Ryan's Daughter." In all of them, he was Mitchum, from the film noir shadow-dwelling of his early stardom ("Out of the Past," "Where Danger Lives") to drama ("The Night of the Hunter") and western ("El Dorado" opposite a laconic John Wayne). He was Mitchum even on television's "The Winds of War," and he was Mitchum to the end, appearing...
...also got momentum: besides his role as a nature photographer in The Lost World, he stars in the forthcoming neo-noir drama The Locusts (opposite, coincidentally, Spielberg's wife Kate Capshaw), and is filming the comedy Clay Pigeons (with Janeane Garofalo). "The reason I've scheduled all these movies in a row is that I don't know how long this window of opportunity will last," says Vaughn. "While the opportunity is here, I want to take advantage of it." Don't sweat it, baby, the word's out: everybody knows you're money...