Word: ops
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...three-story Victorian house (where he keeps the curtains drawn to protect his collection of watercolors), teaches a film course at the University of Chicago, and once wrote scripts for Erotic-Film Producer Russ Meyer. Siskel lives with his wife and two children in a fashionable ten-room co-op and is such a fan of Saturday Night Fever that at a celebrity auction he bought the % white suit John Travolta wore in the film. They rarely socialize with each other and never sit together at screenings: Siskel is typically near the back, Ebert farther down the aisle, usually munching...
...anonymous tip. "The notion was to put a citizen under surveillance," says Bill Kovach, editor of the Atlanta Journal and Constitution. "To me that is a technique for police, not journalists." A.M. Rosenthal, former executive editor of the New York Times, criticized the Herald's tactics in his op-ed column: "I would not have given such an assignment or allowed one to be made." Yet a Times editorial called the Herald's pursuit of the story "eminently justified," and many others agreed. "I would have done the same thing if I got the tip they did," says David Hall...
...seven years of internal exile in Gorky, most of the initial speculation saw it as primarily a propaganda stunt for foreign consumption. The press corps in Moscow reminded everybody that the Gulags are still full and dissidents who are Soviet Jews have a hard time emigrating. Then came the op-ed page experts, asserting that change in the Evil Empire is only a mirage and warning against gullibility, as if the Moscow press corps -- its movements constantly circumscribed by the KGB -- does not know there is a cold...
...Audiences for Rear Window features range from as little as six to as many as sixty people (at a recent showing of "Swing-time"). Collaborations with organizations such as the Boston Architectural Center (which rebuilt its top floor screening room for the Rear Window) and the Boston Food Co-op ease the financial burden; these organizations underwrite the series, giving Kleiler the freedom to program without concern for financial problems...
...Rear Window screens films Fridays at 7:30 p.m. (and some Sundays) at the Brookline Arts Center (86 Monmouth St.), Wednesdays at 7 p.m. at the Boston Food Co-op (449 Cambridge St., Allston), and at the Boston Architectural Center (320 Newbury St.). Films are also shown in other locations; for more information, call...