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Matz said that because the business is still new, he does not know how lucrative it will become. But he predicted that he will be able to meet costs this term and reel in a profit in the spring, when coupon bartering has been known to increase by as much as 60 percent...
...through human blood or saliva. It commutes by bugbite or kiss or who knows what. It travels in mysterious ways, and everything, everyone, becomes suspect: a toilet seat, a child's cut, an act of love. Life slips into science fiction. People begin acting like characters in the first reel of The Invasion of the Body Snatchers. They peer intently at one another as if to detect the telltale change, the secret lesion, the sign that someone has crossed over, is not himself anymore, but one of them, alien and lethal. In the plague mentality, one belongs either...
...Three years later he signed his first movie contract, at $150 a week; four years after that, he was to make $1 million a year and become, for a time, the planet's most recognizable and cherished figure. Chaplin deserved no less; his poignant one-reel comedies taught the world how to love movies. Pickford, with her ringlets and coquettish ways, was hardly less popular, and no less resourceful. In 1909 the little girl from Toronto cadged an audition with Film Pioneer D.W. Griffith; by 1916 she could tell the bosses at Paramount Pictures, "No, I really cannot afford...
...learn that George and Sister-in-Law Laura enjoyed a pre-Christmas tryst at New York City's Pierre Hotel. Julian Kay (Richard Gere in American Gigolo) was born in an asylum, son of the mad Norma Desmond and Screenwriter Joe Gillis, whom she shot in the last reel of Sunset Boulevard. Julian is raised by Max von Mayerling (Erich von Stroheim), Norma's former husband and butler. After two dismal marriages, Judy Rogers (Natalie Wood in Rebel Without a Cause) joins a Haight-Ashbury commune...
...Would that she could lose her husband Monk (Danny Aiello) so easily. He is a bruiser who spends his unemployed days pitching pennies with his pals, his nights alternately neglecting or abusing Cecilia. Her life is like a movie, all right, but the wrong kind, the first reel of an old Joan Crawford weeper. But in Cecilia's movie-house refuge, a couple of synapses in her mind clap hands, and her sweet, silly dreams take life. Tom Baxter suddenly starts talking to her from the screen, then hops down off it to escort her out the back door into...