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David Frankel
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A Conjurer of Words
L OON LAKE shimmers in the dewy dawn, prose and poetry, beautiful words strung like a creeping vine in a
Lost in Place
W ITH Annie Hall, Woody Allen created a film for anyone who calls the New York metropolitan area "home." With
More Kugelmass
W HEN IT COMES to the little shnook who keeps us other shnooks laughing, one has to cut through the
Breakfast Epiphanies
H ANDCARVED COFFINS" is a true story about a murderer, a detective and a writer. Truman Capote calls it "A
The Fine Art of Survival
S AMUEL FULLER took the crew of his picture, The Big Red One, to Israel because the Judean Hills today
The Fine Art of Survival
S AMUEL FULLER took the crew of his picture, The Big Red One, to Israel because the Judean Hills today
The Fine Art of Survival
S AMUEL FULLER took the crew of his picture, The Big Red One, to Israel because the Judean Hills today
The Mating Call of the Wide-Eyed Freshman
"Okay, listen, you bring the wall-length mirror and I'll bring the porta-bar and we can turn our room into a
School Days
H IGH SCHOOL used to mean Archie and Betty and Veronica and Jughead. Remember tenth grade: hanging out in the
More Than Kin, Less Than Kind
B ILLY is like sinus trouble," a White House staffer said a few years ago. "It never goes away but
Soothing the Savage Beast
M USIC BOUNCES THROUGH Rockers like an old truck on the backroads of Jamaica, an unfaltering reggae rhythm riding over
Peter Sellers 1925-1980
P ETER SELLERS died after his ninth heart attack. Even cats have only nine lives, and cats aren't funny. Cats
A Cosmic Experience
NEW YORK--The New York Cosmos fans love to boo Glorgio Chinaglia because he looks lazy standing alone by the adversaries'
Living on Spongecake
Cheech and Chong don't look like bums anymore. In fact, Cheech Martin and Tommy Chong have escaped the barrio forever
Two for the Road
I N THE FIRST DOG DAYS of this sultry new decade, two films of precious little artistic merit and perhaps
