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...humiliation for slights received, the most elegant revenge. All this was catnip for the original film's director. Mankiewicz (whose older brother Herman wrote Citizen Kane) had been in movies since the early days of talking pictures, and "talkies" is a good description of his very voluble films. His Oscar-winning scripts for A Letter to Three Wives and All About Eve were filled, stocked, clogged with clever badinage. Nearly 60 years later, those films are still among the pearliest repositories for Hollywood's verbal chic...
...would be nice to have a woman President. I think half the Senate should be women, half of Parliament, half the ruling mullahs. But that will never happen, darling!' MERYL STREEP, Oscar-winning actress, on her views on government...
MERYL STREEP, Oscar-winning actress, on her views on government...
There's always something too good to be true about famous last words. Did Oscar Wilde really say, "Either that wallpaper goes or I do"? I certainly hope so, but still. So we should be careful with the claim that in his last recorded utterance, a few weeks before he died, the English painter J.M.W. Turner, the man who whipped up force fields of light, who could make light obliterate almost everything it fell on and then make it spell out everything else, turned to somebody and said...
...outsize personality who checked himself into rehab for alcohol abuse in 2001. He was the cocky Hollywood star who played poker and won big. Mostly, he was the guy who seemed to be squandering all the credibility he had earned for co-writing, co-starring in and winning an Oscar for Good Will Hunting in 1997. Even before that, he was a child star, notably in the TV series The Voyage of the Mimi. In fact, until recently, comparing him with other former child stars was the only way you could conceive of his career as going well since...