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Figures in this novel of invisible corruption include Dr. Talbot, rector of "Gloucester" College, Oxford, who lends his prestige to the concoction of war propaganda, and Lord Pontypool, a vulgarian press lord, whose horrible career is clearly based on that of megalomaniac Lord Northcliffe, creator of Britain's all-too-popular press. But the chief villain is one who usually appears as a fictional hero-the sensitive leftwing intellectual. Tony Caldecott had been the editor of a Quaker-financed liberal weekly and survives the war with a combat-won Military Cross and consciousness of a desperate cowardice known only...
...Kurosawa's favorite Kurosawa picture. Made in 1951, the film ran on for 165 minutes. Appalled, Kurosawa's crassly commercial distributor (Shochiku) hacked it down to 90 minutes. The uncut original has never been shown in public-until now. Thanks to a culture-conscious exhibitor named Dan Talbot, the unmitigated Idiot has had its world premiere in Manhattan-and the showing showed that the crassly commercial distributor was absolutely right...
Daddy Ni died six years ago, never having seen Richard in a play or movie. He tried once?setting out to see My Cousin Rachel when it was playing in a Port Talbot cinema. On the way down the valley he stopped in 17 pubs. Finally settled in the theater, he watched the film begin. One of the first things Richard did on the screen was to pour himself a drink. "That's it," said Daddy...
...took prizes in the eisteddfod, singing, as his sister put it, as if "he had a bell in every tooth." In a sense, he outgrew his family, being something more than life-size even then. A teacher-writer named Philip Burton, drama coach and English master at the Port Talbot grammar school, offered him a room in his lodgings. Cecilia and her husband agreed...
...university's keeper of rare books, world-renowned for his 1925 discovery of a supposedly destroyed collection of Boswell papers; of a stroke; in Hartford, Conn. Tink's literary sleuthing uncovered the papers in Ireland's Malahide Castle, but he was unable to persuade Lord Talbot de Malahide, Boswell's great-great-grandson, to part with the vast trove. It remained for Lieut...