Word: widowing
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...pretty Parisian widow is menaced by grisly thugs and wooed by a mysterious man who may want only the money she has but can't find. In 1963 this was a recipe for Stanley Donen's romantic thriller Charade, with Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn. Now it's a sorry mess called The Truth About Charlie. From Grant and Hepburn in Charade to Mark Wahlberg and Thandie Newton in Charlie, the charisma drop is steeper than that of Martha Stewart's stock price. Director Jonathan Demme's jittery melange is shot in punishing close-ups by a Ritalin-deprived camera...
...crossover to writing and directing with 36 Chowringhee Lane, a film about marginalized Anglo Indians in India, which won the country's National Awards for best direction and best cinematography. Sen's subsequent movies have tackled a range of similarly weighty and political topics, including sati, the practice of widow sacrifice. As a result, she is often regarded as a feminist filmmaker, and she wears the tag uneasily. "I believe feminism is a part of humanism, and I am a humanist," she says...
...DIED. QUEEN GERALDINE OF THE ALBANIANS, 87, widow of King Zog and one of the last of Europe's exiled monarchs; in Tirana. Known as "The White Rose of Hungary" this former aristocratic beauty was finally permitted to return to Albania last June...
Geraldine Malt, Ronald Malt’s widow, said Knowles had to return to see Malt several times for checkups and the follow-up surgeries. Ten years after the surgery, Knowles made an effort to distance himself from Malt and to lead a more private life...
...same space as the "real" people. But Deitch goes one further - mixing up true reality with the fantasy of his books. Often he insists that they are true stories. The introduction of "Boulevard" tells of how, as a teenager, Deitch visited the home of an old animator's widow and her reclusive son. Later in the book you are led to conclude they were Al Mishkin's widow and Nathan. Did Deitch really visit such people? Is Waldo meant to be an actual demon from hell or just a hallucination? Deitch never lets...