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...Danger Island, to name only two from 1939. To satisfy the insatiable public, the studios released 388 movies that year (compared with 349 in 1988), 378 in traditional black-and-white and ten, including Gone With the Wind and The Wizard of Oz, in that relatively new process called Technicolor...
...means paradise for hot dog lovers, their ranks decimated by all the "good health" crazes and concerns about red meat and cholesterol. But there are still some who proudly hold their hot dogs high, disdaining the trend-followers who crowd into Luscious Licks for their few globs of tasteless, technicolor frozen yogurt. "The problem with New Englanders is that they are very health-conscious, and don't eat a lot of hot dogs," says Lamberti...
They had faces then, but they also had posters. And Reel Art: Great Posters from the Golden Age of the Silver Screen by Stephen Rebello and Richard Allen (Abbeville; 342 pages; $75) displays them in both black and white and glorious Technicolor, along with a witty history of this peculiar art form. Charles Laughton's grasping hand reaches for a half-clad Maureen O'Hara in a teaser for The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939); Gary Cooper clutches a gun and Madeleine Carroll clutches him in an ad for The General Died at Dawn (1936); William Powell and Hedy Lamarr...
Brian Williams '88, a Black actor who appeared in a Kirkland House production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, says that none of the Black actors he knows feels "frustrated" by a lack of opportunities. But Walker says, "There is a large number of Black women who would love to act" but have not been able to land roles...
...show was Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, written in 1967 for London's St. Paul's School, and it remains one of their most winning compositions. Originally a 25-minute piece for the school's younger boys, it was expanded for a performance at Central Hall, Westminster, where by chance it was heard by Derek Jewell, a music critic for the London Sunday Times. His unexpected rave led to a recording. Lloyd Webber's deft gift for parody (the Elvis homage of Pharaoh's Story) and melodic invention (Joseph's moving anthem Close Every Door) captured a wide audience...