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When called by Congress to testify about his early membership in the Communist Party, Dassin skipped to London, where Fox production chief Darryl Zanuck let him shoot the Brit-noir Night and the City. It stars Richard Widmark (who died, also in his 90s, a week before Dassin) as an...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Master of the Heist | 4/6/2008 | See Source »

In a movie career that stretched from those student films, to a final appearance in 2003 as Nazi war criminal Joseph Mengele (hey, how'd that happen?), Heston would often venture beyond the epic. He made plenty of Westerns, some important science-fiction films, a few comedies (for which he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Appreciation: Charlton Heston | 4/6/2008 | See Source »

Citizen Kane is the definitive litmus test, and Oscar failed it. At the top of nearly every critics' poll as the best film of all time, Orson Welles' debut movie was praised to the skies when it opened in 1941. But the resemblance of Charles Foster Kane to publisher William...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The 800-lb. Golden Gorilla | 2/14/2008 | See Source »

[TIME's cover story] has had the same effect as Orson Welles' radio adaptation of H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds in 1938 ... The French were persuaded to believe in an American attack on French culture. The controversy of the past weeks is purely manufactured, the handiwork of three...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Culture of Healthy Debate | 1/2/2008 | See Source »

But anyone with a taste for history--or taste at all--might do better trolling the auction houses this month, where once-in-a-lifetime shopping opportunities abound. In the first liquor auction since Prohibition at Christie's in Manhattan, a 1926 single-malt Macallan scotch went for $54,000...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: One of a Kind | 12/13/2007 | See Source »

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