Word: sragow
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Jason Aquino, 23, who was arrested at his home in Harlem on Thursday, was charged with first degree murder, accessory after the fact of murder, armed robbery, and possession of a firearm in Cambridge District Court. Judge Roann Sragow-Licht ordered Aquino to be held in jail without bail...
Victor Fleming: An American Movie Master By Michael Sragow Pantheon; 645 pages...
...filmmaker who didn't try to stick out so much as fit in; the man-for-hire who could saddle up to any studio assignment - even a work in progress - and mold it to perfection? In Victor Fleming: An American Movie Master, Baltimore Sun film critic Michael Sragow argues that Fleming - who directed The Wizard of Oz and Gone With the Wind - was such a man, denied his rightful place in the cinematic pantheon...
...studios, affording the young director not only considerable clout but also an education as to how to tolerate, befriend and mentor major movie stars. It's a skill that was put to good use in working with Judy Garland in Oz and Gable in Gone With the Wind, and Sragow reconstructs the ways Fleming was able to extract defining performances from several A-list actors. While Fleming often deflected the spotlight onto others, here he finally gets his chance to shine. (See TIME's list of the top 10 movies...
...working his way up the ladder to take control of some of the most ambitious, unwieldy and risky epics in movie history. For readers with a limited knowledge of the movie industry, its transition from silents to talkies, and the rise of the big studio picture, Sragow's thorough scene-setting could double as a cinematic history lesson - illuminating the many famous lives that Fleming touched (and helped to shape) and the ways in which sets, casts, contracts and careers worked during Hollywood's grand glory days...