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...century was an experience more closely allied to other national arts than to the nickelodeon fever of the West. Until 1918 female roles were played by Kabuki actors in drag. Until the arrival of talking pictures in 1931, audiences depended upon spellbinding narrators called benshi to interpret the on-screen action; many were more popular than the country's movie stars. Though Japanese cinema was a strong force in Asia (so much so that in Thailand the word nippon came to mean movies), its films were virtually unknown in the West. Haifa century later it would take an alliance...
Students are beginning to tap into on-screen encyclopedias...
...lavish tribute from Washington's Kennedy Center. The President and Nancy will be there to honor Hope and his wife of 48 years, Dolores. So will the third generation of pretty young TV women-Cheryl Tiegs, Christie Brinkley-who have smiled their way through Bob's corny on-screen advances. To a former vaudevillian who still works civic arenas littered with last night's hockey programs, this is class...
Bardot's public life merged with her private life. On-screen and off, she rebelled against straitlaced convention. Continually besieged by the press, she blames journalists for destroying her second marriage, to Actor Jacques Charrier. ("You have no idea of what it was like. We couldn't do anything. Everything was deformed and blown up out of proportion by the press.") The marriage produced Bardot's only child, Nicolas, now 22. But the role of mother proved impossible for her. ("I couldn't bring up Nicolas. I couldn't possibly have looked after a baby...
...takes Newman longer-seven years, he figures-to know whether his movies are winners or not. His acting in The Verdict is brilliant and solid and, what is more, brilliant in the right direction. He plays a boozy Irish-Catholic lawyer, who is on-screen for nearly all of the film's 125 min., accurately enough to be utterly convincing, with enough restraint so that the audience does not get a hangover, and sympathetically enough so that he reaches out, shakily, and touches heroism. Frank Galvin is a formerly bright and formerly young Boston attorney who was railroaded...