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...favourable impression,” Goodman tells us. He quotes a fellow activist, Edmund Morel, recalling his first impressions of Casement: “I saw before me a man, my own height, very lithe and sinewy... A long lean, swarthy Vandyke type of face, graven with power and withal of great gentleness.” Casement emerges as a brave and sensitive campaigner with a strong sense of moral purpose, dogged in his pursuit of Arana, who, having driven out all competition for rubber-production in Iquitos by 1907, had succeeded in “turning the Putumayo region...
...created Porky, Daffy and Bugs. Freleng was the anchor, making crisp vaudeville comedies. Clampett bent his stories and pummeled his characters into manic, surreal, endless inventive farce; his great period (1942-46) deserves a book of its own. Jones' films were about people--all right, barnyard critters, but human withal--who endured life's vithithitudes (as Daffy would say) with amazing grace and Charlie Chaplin's physical...
...dark suit, the narrow tie, the eyes of a man who's been up three nights straight doing things that would excite anyone but him. These art films won international success because of his effortless allure. La Notte, with its blank walls and arid stares, was withal an essay in star quality. We could happily watch Marcello being unhappy, doing anything or nothing. He was charisma in lethargy...
...springboard for our best efforts, exploring the horror, not ignoring it." Everyone agreed that this would be, in Reynolds' words, "a different Hawkeye, more sensitive, compassionate and serious than in the film but, through Alan's lovely comic touch, an engaging man withal...
...withal, he also had the arrogance of genius. And when he really set out to paint the Toledo of his own mindscape, the result was one of the most magical landscapes of all time. Toledo is brown. He painted it green, its buildings outlined in phosphorescent light and displaced to suit his pictorial purposes. When he wanted something enough, he could do it-and did. -By A. T. Baker