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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Farewell package, TIME paid homage to the top tier of notables, all sorely missed. Other, longer tributes - to actors Richard Widmark and Suzanne Pleshette, film directors Damiano, Jules Dassin, Youssef Chahine and Robert Mulligan, playwright Harold Pinter, actress-chanteuse Eartha Kitt, FX wizard Stan Winston and movie critics Gary Carey and Manny Farber, as well as the uncategorizable Forrest J Ackerman - were published upon the deaths of these worthies and can be found through Google or on TIME's search engine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Richard Corliss's 2008 Entertainment Death Reel | 1/10/2009 | See Source »

...stick out so much as fit in; the man-for-hire who could saddle up to any studio assignment - even a work in progress - and mold it to perfection? In Victor Fleming: An American Movie Master, Baltimore Sun film critic Michael Sragow argues that Fleming - who directed The Wizard of Oz and Gone With the Wind - was such a man, denied his rightful place in the cinematic pantheon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Victor Fleming Was Hollywood's Hidden Genius | 12/22/2008 | See Source »

...Fleming's way with talent in The Wizard of Oz: "When [Judy] Garland couldn't stop breaking into giggles at the pseudomenacing advance of [Bert] Lahr's Cowardly Lion, Fleming escorted her off the Yellow Brick Road, said, 'Now darling, this is serious,' slapped her on the cheek, then ordered, 'Now go in there and work.' It must have been one carefully calculated slap from a man with impressive upper-body strength who was also a master of the 'corkscrew punch.' ... Apart from that smack, he stuck to his approach of treating young actors like adults - and the results could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Victor Fleming Was Hollywood's Hidden Genius | 12/22/2008 | See Source »

...Marx Brothers films (At the Circus and Go West). Groucho Marx, the mustached brother, once said that beginning his friendship with Brecher was "the only good thing about making At the Circus." Groucho--in a play off of Brecher's uncredited role as script editor on The Wizard of Oz--also bestowed on Brecher the nickname "The Wicked Wit of the West." Brecher used that wit to create the long-running radio series The Life of Riley and pen the Academy Award--nominated screenplay for Meet Me in St. Louis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Irving Brecher | 12/8/2008 | See Source »

...collection picks up with "The Warlock's Hairy Heart," a gothic, Poe-like tale about a wizard who uses Dark magic to make himself immune to love. He locks his heart away, literally, Horcrux-style, in a crystal case. By the time he finally goes to recover it he finds that his heart "had grown strange during its long exile, blind and savage in the darkness to which it had been condemned, and its appetites had grown powerful and perverse." Also it had gotten hairy. Rowling doesn't tell us the why of the hair, and no plot points turn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: J.K. Rowling's Beedlemania | 12/5/2008 | See Source »

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