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...West -- anyway in the old??westerns--morality and mechanics went gun-in-hand. Any showdown ended with the good guy proving his superiority over the bad guy via a double blast of dexterity and firepower. Few questioned why the better man should automatically be a faster, more accurate shot or why disputes had to be resolved by gunplay. That was just the way that, in national and movie mythology, the West...
Emile Griffith is an old??man now, but his round face lights up like a child's when he puts on his old boxing robe. He does not look like someone who would kill a man with his hands. But that's exactly what he did the night of March 24, 1962, during a televised boxing match against welterweight champion Benny Paret. Ring of Fire: The Emile Griffith Story, a documentary from Dan Klores and Ron Berger (USA, April 20, 9 p.m. E.T.), searingly remembers a contest that crossed the invisible line into a killing...
So much for grand old??flags. Some Australian nationalists this month are lobbying to ditch their current symbol, far left--which includes Britain's Union Jack--because it conjures up the country's roots as a penal colony. Instead, the Aussies are pushing for a new flag celebrating the 19th century Eureka Stockade, a tax revolt some liken to the Boston Tea Party. Australia is just one of several countries reconsidering their colors. --By Jeremy Caplan...
...most persuasive piece of evidence, however, is Pham himself. Unlike Be or Thanh, Pham is neither wild nor demonstrative. His hair, cut short and jagged around the wound, looks like a washed kitten's. His height is average for a Vietnamese 15-year-old???about 5 ft. 2 in. His build is average. His face is mouth-open flat, without expression, except for the eyes, so brown as to seem black, which cannot exactly be said to have expression either. They are their own depth, the vessels of what they have seen. It is what they have seen that makes...
...disappointments, but enlarged Beatty's image. Along the way, he earned a reputation for being hard on directors. "If the director was indecisive, Warren would absolutely destroy him," says Robert Towne. "He'd ask so many questions?and he can ask more questions than any three-year-old???that the director didn't know whether he was coming or going. I think Warren's drive to be a producer was that he feared he would get into more films where the person in authority didn't quite know what he was doing." Beatty agrees: "Once I became interested in stories...