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...heart attack; in Neuilly, France. A factory laborer before becoming an actor, Gabin was best known for his low-key portrayals of handsome, earthy loners: the Spanish legionnaire in La Bandera (1935), the jewel thief in Pépé le Moko (1937), the soldier-mechanic in Jean Renoir's classic, Grand Illusion (1937). His memorable later roles included the lawyer who falls in love with a prostitute (Brigitte Bardot) in Love Is My Profession (1959). As bourgeois in his private life as he often was on screen, Gabin told a recent interviewer that politicians were "bad actors...
...Renoir's La Chienne at 4:10 and 8:15; Madame Bovary...
...film, which depicts an encounter between earthlings and extraterrestrial beings, is being shot in elaborate secrecy at an abandoned Air Force hangar in Mobile, Ala. So far the secrecy seems to suit Spielberg just fine. "Directing a movie with Truffaut on the set," he says, "is like having Renoir around when you're still painting by numbers...
Prancing and gesturing in front of a giant photograph of Renoir's painting The Dance at Bougival (taken by an experimental Polaroid camera that reproduces works of art with startling fidelity), Land put on a virtuoso performance for the stockholders. He passionately defended the U.S. patent system: "We took nothing from anybody. We gave a great deal to the world. The only thing keeping us alive is our brilliance. The only thing that keeps our brilliance alive is our patents." He' twitted Kodak's new camera, saying that "the new group would like to confine...
...Renoir. Kenneth Anger...