Word: twilight
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Well, what else did I have in mind for my twilight years? Not that much. A writer turns 55, the old double nickel, and the slender thread of inspiration has unraveled and you clomp around in circles like an old pony at the pony ride and beautiful women come up and tell you how much their mothers liked something you did in 1975. Your prose style turns flabby. Your work has the shelf life of tropical fish. Compared to that, fathering a baby is sheer nobility, a shot at immortality...
...relationship. In order to finish in time for the screenings of student films at the Carpenter Center (beginning May 7), Ross will spend endless hours cozying up to the Steenbeck, an editing machine whose giant silver spools and clicking knobs recall a technology-gone-bad episode of The Twilight Zone. But unlike many other thesis students who feel painfully committed to their machines, Ross can think of no other place he would rather be. "I can't even remember when I first knew I wanted to make films," says Ross, taking another moment to think back. "Maybe when...
...sized dog named Lady along spotless sidewalks. While Lady, appropriately accessorized with a pink bow and a tumor half her size, waddled through pristine gardens, we relished our inter-generational paradise. Surrounded by Buicks, pastel buildings, and sweater-clad dogs, we truly had stumbled into spring break Twilight Zone...
Robert Benton(Twilight) Kramer vs. Kramer, for the gold...
...nothing else, Robert Benton's film Twilight is an ode to a fading brand of screen legends. Paul Newman plays Harry Ross, an alcoholic former detective in Los Angeles dependent on his employers, retired actors Jack and Catherine Ames (Gene Hackman and Susan Sarandon). Harry becomes involved in a murder investigation after Hackman sends him to deliver a package to a mysterious woman. The essential features of film noir are in place in Twilight, which dutifully follows nearly every single convention of the genre. The inconsistencies in the film could be forgivable if the film had any dramatic urgency. Fortunately...