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...cousins, who were born in the town of Tiberias on the Sea of Galilee, have wanted to make pictures since they were teenagers. Golan, the elder partner, devoted much of his time to the movies, watching his screen idols, Gary Cooper, Humphrey Bogart and Charlie Chaplin. He spent the '50s working in the theater, and though he became Israel's highest-paid director, he now regards the time as wasted; it kept him from his true love, the movies...
What made the screen kiss stimulating in the old days was that the consummation was left to occur in the viewer's imagination. Consider the effect if Rhett Butler had carried Scarlett up the stairs and then the camera had followed them into her bedroom to record the next half-hour. As it was, Vivien Leigh's next-morning smile remains one of the most graphically suggestive moments in the history of movies. Usually, directors were clumsier. In Picnic, Kim Novak and William Holden knelt beside the railroad tracks and kissed as a train thundered out of the tunnel. Elsewhere...
...only in movies but also in television dramas. Actors did not give the subject much thought until it came out last summer that Rock Hudson had given Linda Evans a passionate kiss on Dynasty when he knew he had AIDS. No one in Hollywood talked about anything else. The screen kiss suddenly became a frightening threat. In October the Screen Actors' Guild sent a letter to 7,000 producers and agents informing them that from now on they must notify actors in advance of any scenes that require openmouthed kissing...
Nick Nolte brings redemption to the rich in Down and Out in Beverly Hills. Pirandello comes richly to the screen in Kaos...
...growing number of major U.S. companies, including such firms as Exxon, Federal Express, Greyhound Lines, Southern California Edison, TWA, IBM and Lockheed, require all job applicants to pass urinalysis tests that screen for drugs. Some firms demand that experienced workers undergo such tests when the danger of impairment is simply too great to chance. At Rockwell, company pilots and employees who work with explosives are tested once a year...