Word: odd
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...says Woody Allen. "Artistic desecration," says the Directors Guild of America. "Cultural vandalism," says the Western branch of the Writers Guild of America. Not since Ingrid Bergman was run out of town on a morals charge has Hollywood been & in such a pious fit. Directors, actors, critics, even the odd editorialist, have risen as one to denounce the depredations of -- colorization...
...MOCA announced with much fanfare that it had agreed to buy, for $11 million spread interest-free over six years, a group of works by Rauschenberg, Oldenburg, Rothko and others from Count Giuseppe Panza di Biumo, the Italian industrialist who was one of its trustees. Though it seems odd that a trustee could make a fortune by selling to his own institution, the deal was perfectly legal in California. "There's good self-dealing and bad self-dealing," says Director Koshalek philosophically. Then last November word leaked out that Count Panza's fellow trustees had discussed selling some...
WRITER MICHAEL HERR finished up his psychedelic memoir of the Vietnam War, Dispatches, with an odd chant: "Vietnam, Vietnam, Vietnam, we've all been there." He was wrong. If it was anything like what is depicted in Oliver Stone's Platoon, we had no idea...
There are several good touches in Feldman's script--for instance, its ill-mannered version of the stereotypical Asian mentor and a particularly odd dream sequence--but all of these showcase Murphy's familiar comic talents. For his next outing, let's hope for a star vehicle that is a little bit more demanding to drive...
...loved my brother more than I loved her." Danny wanted to direct his brother's first Broadway show, Come Blow Your Horn; after he failed to get the job, he refused to attend opening night. Danny lived the situation of one of his brother's greatest hits, The Odd Couple -- sharing an apartment with Hollywood Agent Roy Gerber, whose wife had left him -- and wrote 14 pages of a play about it before he stalled. Eventually Neil took over the concept and gave Danny one-sixth of the royalties. That concession has been worth hundreds of thousands of dollars...