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...directed nothing but the 1955 French jewel-heist flick Rififi, his cinematic reputation would have been secure. But in addition to taut capers like Rififi and 1964's Topkapi, American director and screenwriter Jules Dassin, who was blacklisted from Hollywood after being identified before Congress as a former communist, was also a master of film noir--exemplified in movies such as 1948's police thriller The Naked City and 1950's Night and the City. Among all his solid works, though, it was Rififi--with its masterly 30-min. dialogue- and music-free robbery sequence as a centerpiece--that remained...
ISTANBUL Turkish brand Gilan draws inspiration from the Topkapi Palace. Its eponymous boutique features the Chintamani ring ($1,200), fit for a queen...
...adaptation in the exotic landscapes crossed by the Silk Road, the ancient network of trade routes between Asia and Europe. Although the exhibition has been drawn together from collections in 11 countries, most of the more than 370 items on display are usually found in Istanbul, in the Topkapi Palace Museum and the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Art. Many are appearing for the first time outside Turkey, including a set of drawings commonly attributed to "Mohammad of the Black Pen." These kinetic images depicting nomads, Sufi dervishes and demons and dating from 14th and 15th century Central Asia...
...wide-ranging to be contained in one art form, he wrote hit plays (Romanoff and Juliet) and books of nonfiction and short stories. He could be an excellent film director (Billy Budd) and a serious Shakespearean (King Lear at Stratford, Ont.). He won Supporting Actor Oscars for Spartacus and Topkapi, and earned his greatest movie renown as Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot, as in the film of Death on the Nile. His spirit was essentially impish (as on a comedy album for which he provided all the voices and sound effects); his greatest role was Peter Ustinov, inexhaustible raconteur...
...wide-ranging to be contained in one art form, he wrote hit plays (Romanoff and Juliet) and books of nonfiction and short stories. He could be an excellent film director (Billy Budd) and a serious Shakespearean (King Lear at Stratford, Ont.). He won Supporting Actor Oscars for Spartacus and Topkapi, and earned his greatest movie renown as Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot, as in the film of Death on the Nile. His spirit was essentially impish (as on a comedy album for which he provided all the voices and sound effects); his greatest role was Peter Ustinov, inexhaustible raconteur...