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...many Jewish boys, I was working up in the Catskills, as a waiter and the maitre d' at the Paramount Hotel. I was doing theater, and it was a very difficult situation, especially in New York, where you couldn't be an extra unless you were part of the Screen Actors Guild. I was making no money. We agreed - my girlfriend Alice and I - to take some pictures in the deluxe wing of the Paramount. We knew women could do Playboy and that might lead to a career in theater, film. I thought I would...
...make the choice between myself and John McCain as clear as possible. I don't want people to be confused," he says. "And I also hope that the convention conveys who I am. You know, during the course of a 19-month campaign, you're on the television screen, you're in big auditoriums, but sometimes who you are may get lost. And I want people to come off saying: 'Whether I'm voting for the guy or against the guy, I know what he stands for, I know where he comes from and I know what he believes.' " After...
...Robert Thom (Wild in the Street, Bloody Mama) and Charles B. Griffith, the seminal creator of early Corman monsterpieces, from It Conquered the World to The Little Shop of Horrors. As has happened in other Corman remakes, like Little Shop of Horrors, the original writers and director receive no screen credit on the new Death Race; Corman considered them mere wage slaves in his cinematic Triangle Shirtwaist Factory...
...efficient and fun as they are. That's one of the limitations of machine entertainment like the Anderson Death Race. It can't break the mold it's cast in; it can reproduce only itself. It doesn't take the sublime risk that the audience will stare at the screen going "Huh?"- and, maybe later...
Another strategy, which is still experimental, unfortunately works best in male athletes. MRI of the wrist bones and the extent to which they have fused has been used to screen out boys too young to play football. The older the player, the more fused the bones should be. These structures, however, don't fuse the same way in girls, making this test gender-specific...