Word: rosee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Since December, seven Americans, including the DEA agent, have disappeared. Benjamin and Patricia Mascarenas of Ely, Nev., and Dennis and Rose Carlson, of Redding, Calif., all Jehovah's Witnesses, are believed to have been abducted while distributing evangelical literature. On the night of Jan. 30, John Walker and Alberto Radelat failed to return to Walker's Guadalajara apartment after they went out for a drink...
...Purple Rose of Cairo is not merely one of the best movies about movies ever made. It is still more unusual, because it comes at its subject the hard way, from the front of the house, instead of from behind the scenes. Its subject is not how movies work but how they work on the audience. Or more accurately, how they once...
...business of movies then was to offer, for a quarter or a dime, a sort of divine otherness, a momentary alternative to the quotidian. This escape took many forms, but a particularly swellegant one could be found in the week's attraction at the Jewel, The Purple Rose of Cairo. In it, Tom Baxter (of the Chicago Baxters), "adventurer and explorer," is discovered by a group of rich idlers in an Egyptian tomb and whisked home with them for "a madcap Manhattan weekend," all supper clubs and penthouses, cocktail shakers and white telephones. Movies like Purple Rose, delicately parodied here...
...Purple Rose did not come to Allen as a nostalgic reverie. "About 14 months ago it hit me--in one flash--that a guy, an actor, could come off the screen and involve himself in the real world. Then I started having doubts. It wasn't until I realized that, my God, if he came off the screen, there would be repercussions on the actual actor in Hollywood. And the subject met the criteria for a film worth working on: it could be amusing, touching, interesting to watch, and there was also the proper potential for visuals...
...into that commercial film cycle that says that every time a film comes out it has to be hailed as an event," he says. "All the foreign filmmakers I loved, including Bergman, just turned out their pictures." He received an Oscar nomination for directing last year's Broadway Danny Rose ("At first I thought it was a typo"), but he won't be waiting on tiptoe for March 25. "I have the best situation I could have," he maintains. "I make whatever films I want with complete creative freedom." A pause, and then he adds, "You know what...