Word: silent
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DIED. LAURENCE AUSTIN, 70ish, silent-film devotee; of gunshot wounds inflicted during a holdup in his theater; in Los Angeles. The son of pre-talkie actor William Austin, he owned the only theater in Los Angeles that played films made in the era before sound...
Another elective worth shopping in the VES department is VES 157r: "American Cinema." Taught by Visiting Lecturer on Visual and Environmental Studies Charles Warren, the class is a survey of American films from Charlie Chaplin's silent pictures to the modern works of directors such as Robert Altman. Students will be taught the art of writing film analysis...
...opportunity to capitalize on AOL's cyber-blunder, CompuServe will air a 30-second commercial depicting 15 seconds of black screen accompanied by repeated unsuccessful attempts by a user to log on to an unnamed online service. The ad, clearly aimed at AOL's incessant logjams, then briefly goes silent before viewers are shown CompuServe's logo and a clincher which reads, "Looking for dependable Internet access? CompuServe. Get on with it." CompuServe isn't the only provider trying to get AOL's goat, not to mention its customers. Prodigy is planning a similar AOL-taunting spot...
...That belies the 6,000 who appeared in Taiwan on Ching Hai Day in October 1995. At that ceremony, she wore queenly robes ("under orders from God," she says), riding a sedan chair carried by eight bearers to the cheers of "your royal majesty." Those followers are keeping faithfully silent as investigators go through the sect's records. One admitted, though, that "believers are not allowed to speak to outsiders without permission from above...
...Crueltide treat about a serial killer with an enshlocklopedic knowledge of scare-film tropes, from the Friday the 13th hockey mask to the Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer TV helmet. In one of the cute touches from Kevin Williamson's script, this psycho wears an Edvard Munch "Silent Scream" mask while taunting and then killing a frantic young woman (Drew Barrymore) alone in the dark. But that's just for practice. The next victim is a teenage virgin (pretty, plucky Neve Campbell, one of the preternaturally bedimpled kids on TV's Party of Five...