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Violence in the Cinema
While cleaning out some old papers, I came across this curious essay that I wrote for some class – possibly social studies – when I was in my junior year in high school. It’s a little naïve but I thought it might give someone a little chuckle – and it does show some youthful insight into its subject (and, for the record, I got a B+ on it). BOND: COMIC BOOK VIOLENCE?
TV Industry Stories (4)
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Flowers Are for Funerals
HENRY SORELLI IS BACK – OR IS HE? Face of the future: Chris Griggs as the new Sorelli There we were again – Tom Sinclair, Evan Jones, and I – getting instructions from director Christian Doherty as he stood talking to us about the next scene we were about to shoot.
Ten Biggest Moments on TV
Richard Nixon gives the Checkers speech. THE TEN BIGGEST MOMENTS ON TVExpert picks 10 most memorable events
I Am a Fugitive
I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang
A Chorus Line
A CHORUS LINE 1985. Michael Douglas, Alyson Reed, Terrence Mann, Audrey Landers; dir. Richard Attenborough: 117m. (PC-13) Hi St D cc $79.95. LV $34.95. CED. Embassy. Image; excel.
Christmas Movies
The Spirit of Christmas PastEver-popular holiday movies and specials are back on the box this year. Edmund Gwenn and Natalie Wood in Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
Film Therapists (2)
NOTE: Editors often rewrite stories, and I occasionally found myself rewritten. Sometimes, it was necessary - I might not have hit the mark – other times it was silly (adding the word "living" to the phrase "everyone in the world knows James Bond"), and then there were instances when it was done to catch a different idiom. That was usually the case with EMPIRE, a British film magazine that printed my work in the early 1990s. I recently came across an original draft of a story that was rewritten by EMPIRE (adding British slang). Here's a chance to see what was done and to choose whose prose you prefer. Tom Soter, July 3, 2011.
Scrooge
The publisher didn't believe in Charles Dickens' Christmas book – the author had to use his own money to finance its five-shilling color-plated first edition. But A Christmas Carol has always been popular: on the day it was first published, December 25, 1843, it sold 6000 copies. Since then it has earned additional fame through scores of dramatizations, including many film and television versions. Eight of these are now on tape, and they star an unusual cross-section of performers, from Alistair Sim and Henry Winkler to Mickey Mouse and Mr. Magoo.
