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...describe it as the greatest TV show in history would (and still does) minimize its importance by limiting its cultural impact to the small screen,” an article in the online magazine Slate contended this year...
...ending will also remind viewers of Truffaut's The 400 Blows--a lonely lad standing on an empty shore, contemplating a young life gone wrong, a future full of bleak ambiguity. But that obvious reference somehow enhances Sweet Sixteen, unselfconsciously connecting it to an honorable and engaging modern screen tradition. Written by Paul Laverty without a wasted or imprecise word, it refuses to sentimentalize Liam or explain him sociologically. It just lets him live--sometimes jauntily, sometimes tormentedly, but always with our sympathies, our doubtless doomed hopes for him, fully engaged. --By Richard Schickel
...airports are required to screen all checked luggage. But the huge electronic detection machines that are now seen in many airports haven't slowed things down as much as some had feared...
CELEBRATED. BOB HOPE, legendary funnyman of stage and screen; his 100th birthday; in Los Angeles. British-born Hope, who began his career in vaudeville, has acted in more than 50 movies, anchored scores of TV shows and entertained millions of American troops posted overseas. In the U.S., Hope's becoming a centenarian will be commemorated over an entire year with exhibitions, stage performances and TV and movie specials. Ahead of his May 29 birthday, the comedian was reported to have quipped, "I'm so old, they've canceled my blood type...
...Movies have always stirred intense emotions in Barmak. "The first time I went to see a movie was with my father. I saw a line of light from a very small hole fill the entire screen. I had to know what was behind the light." When the projectionist was out on a cigarette break, Barmak grabbed his chance and ducked into the projection room. From that moment on, he knew he had to make films. "It was not only a dream," he recalls. "It was a crazy moment of love...