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...unbilled costar) on Entertainment Tonight. Since what's new is neo and what's hot is retro, the 6-min. clip for the song Left in the Dark features La Streisand as a vampy songstress in an Edward Hopper-style nightclub and in a '50s film noir setting. For Streisand, to compose a slight variation on an old theme of hers, the way she is is never...
While sales of higher-priced varietal wines, named after specific grapes like the Cabernet Sauvignon and Pinot Noir, remain strong, low-cost generic labels, the Burgundies and Chablis produced by such vintners as Inglenook and Almaden, have fallen off. The price of a gallon jug of domestic wine sold in food stores has been cut in half since 1981, to about $3. Meanwhile, foreign vintners have flooded the U.S. Helped by a strong dollar that has made their wines cheaper for American buyers, foreigners boosted their share of the American market this year to more than 25%, up from...
...Griffith's early years had the elements of spectacle, his decline seems to have been made for cinema noir. Ignored, unrecognized, the old director hung around in bars, moving in a limbo of almost-deals and the very young women he could never stay away from. Only when he died of a cerebral hemorrhage in 1948 at the age of 73, did recognition arrive. Obituaries were laudatory; Samuel Goldwyn and Louis B. Mayer served as honor ary pallbearers to the man they had ignored in his final years...
...Odds is one of those remakes that inexplicably leave out everything that was interesting and memorable in the original in order to concentrate on the conventional and the routine. Eric Hughes' screenplay is based on Out of the Past, which may be the most deliriously convoluted film noir ever made, and the new picture retains the clockwork heart of the 1947 Robert Mitchum movie: a gangster hires an investigator to find the woman who has run away from him; when hunter and hunted meet and fall in love, the hood suffers a criminal loss of temper...
...warning about giving too little power in the 1946 constitution to the presidency, he gracefully retired. Twelve years and 24 governments later, De Gaulle returned to save France from civil war over Algeria. He eventually gave the rebellious, predominantly Muslim province its independence, earning the animosity of the pied-noir settlers and the rightist supporters of Algérie francaise who plotted to kill him. (One assassination attempt inspired Frederick Forsyth's 1971 thriller The Day of the Jackal...