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...King of Siam, which has seen every other incarnation, will turn up as a series called Anna and the King. The schoolteacher will be played by Samantha Eggar; the King by the actor who took the role in Broadway and film musicals and seems to hold a patent on it: Yul Brynner...
Politically, they organized a series of demonstrations, actions such as the one that is happening now on this campus, in Sweden. There is a Swedish company called ASEA which has a patent for a specialized process of stringing AC wires long distances from the dam site into the heart of South Africa. The Swedish government was forced to make this company withdraw on the pretext that this company couldn't be sure that Rhodesia wouldn't do some of the work, which would break Sweden's economic embargo against Rhodesia, and thus be a violation of Swedish...
...where dream and reality merge with haunting fluidity. The most fantastic appearances are lent an ceric reality by celluloid and by the night. At night and on film, the huge painted sky shadowing Twentieth's "Western Town" (a sky which, by day, seems absurdly naive in its patent fakery) loses its hard edges and seems to soar up into the "real" sky. Its splashes of white cloud float free, lit by a moon whose own reality you cannot feel sure...
...tell of absurdity, the perfect expression of the flickering, shifting surface of our lives. They tell us that life and the dream are one and the same--inexplicable, exhilerating, never quite within our grasp. And finally, they give the lie to the studios, who thought they had a patent on unreality. A locus for dreams? What's the point, when all the world's a Hollywood
...several autobiographies is there in the dazzlingly erratic trajectories and the odd bleaknesses of Howard Hughes' Iife. Orphaned at 19. Hughes was a grave and skinny Texas boy with an inheritance of half a million dollars and control of his father's Hughes Tool Co.. which owned the patent on a conical drill bit that helped open up the oilfields. Hughes married a young Texas aristocrat, Ella Rice, and headed for Hollywood. A gangling Texas prodigy, he broke into moviemaking by producing a flop or two and then, with a combination of gambler's profligacy and an obsessive genius...