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...Robert Wise, who died last week in Los Angeles at 91, was that his films lacked personality, those visual signatures and obsessive themes that set true auteurs apart from studio hacks for hire. He also had the critical misfortune to direct the Oscar-winning Sound of Music, that melting pile of Alpine slush that was for a long time the most popular movie ever released. But Wise, who broke in as a film editor-earning praise for Orson Welles' Citizen Kane and unjustified calumny for recutting The Magnificent Ambersons after Welles abandoned it-mastered over the years every imaginable movie...
...ROBERT WISE, who died last week in Los Angeles at 91, was that his films lacked personality, those visual signatures and obsessive themes that set true auteurs apart from studio hacks for hire. He also had the critical misfortune to direct the Oscar-winning Sound of Music, that melting pile of Alpine slush that was for a long time the most popular movie ever released. But Wise, who broke in as a film editor--earning praise for Orson Welles' Citizen Kane and unjustified calumny for recutting The Magnificent Ambersons after Welles abandoned it--mastered over the years every imaginable movie...
Statistics can’t tell the whole story. Game notes don’t capture the sight of Dawson pushing the pile for another five yards or breaking loose for an 80-yard touchdown run against Princeton to set Harvard’s single-season touchdown record...
...relief and recovery effort is still slow in coming, but not for lack of volunteers. Two firefighters from Ohio were sent by the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency the day after the storm with dogs that can locate humans buried in a pile of rubble had to sit for two critical days in Gulfport because the feds said their paperwork was not in order. The men found a team of firemen on their own and started working anyway even though the official permissions still haven't come through two weeks later. They expect to be going through the debris for months...
...that would get two ticks from Brash it would undoubtedly be 44-year-old John Key, M.P. and National Finance spokesman. The millionaire Key, a former financial markets wizard, grew up in public housing in Christchurch, went to university, found a place as a money trader and made a pile as he jumped from job to job and city to city. He returned to New Zealand to take a shot at winning the seat of Helensville, west of Auckland, in 2002. Behind the wheel of a musty camper van emblazoned with his smiling face, the personable Key is talking about...