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...remains an unreconstructed New Yorker. Working at home on a rented moviola (a hand-operated viewer on which a film can be studied frame by frame), he even keeps the curtains drawn to thwart the distracting California sunshine. "Look at me," he says proudly, "I'm as pale as a Long Islander in February." He likes to tell about his own case of inflated Hollywooditis after the awards. "I thought," he says, snapping his fingers in fandango-like recall, " 'Baby, you are the real goods-Cole Porter, move over.' Then a friend phoned from New York...
...court brouhahas, like last year's Wimbledon boycott--but the one thing he just can't take is bird whistles immediately preceding his serve. While he hasn't gone into the stands to attack a fan yet, like Jimmy Connors did at one Baltimore Banners match the pale, finely-chiseled features of the Englishman go patch-pink when he gets hot or bothered, lots of bright red blotches of troubled blood...
...Looking pale and drawn, Artist Edith Irving, 39, was paroled last week from a Swiss jail. She had served 14 months of a 24-month sentence, which was slightly less than the sentence imposed by a U.S. court on Husband Clifford Irving for masterminding the Howard Hughes hoax that put them both in the pokey. Edith was met by Emil Stengelé, a wealthy Zurich art-gallery owner who has bought the many paintings she made in prison for exhibition later this month. Her time behind bars revealed Edith's tough side: she disarmed an inmate who was attacking...
French cinematographer Jean Boffety has helped give this world a pale damp beauty. Critic Pauline Kael compared the effect to the mood of Faulkner, but there is something lyric and almost painfully beautiful which could exist nowhere outside of film. There are wonderful details of gas stations and motor courts which recall Walker Evans, like the shots taken through screen doors to which bits of a painted bread ad still adhere or the recurrent presence of Coke bottles with their pale green glass, and Coke signs, even at the entrance of the state prison. But the effect of this carefully...
...English factory town of Manchester might be called the cradle of the Industrial Revolution were it not that more than half the working-class children born there a century ago died before the age of five. Under Manchester's pall of smoke, pale families shuffled away their lives between cotton mill and hovel. Bad air, bad food, bad laws, monotony and danger were the workers' common lot. The din of machinery was a ceaseless taunt that whatever skill remained in their hands was irrelevant...