The poses of Howard Hawks

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Howard Hawkes cultivated an image as an Ivy League-educated intellectual with a taste for expensive possessions and beautiful women, but a new biography by Todd McCarthy exposes this image as a pose. In many ways Hawkes resembled Jay Gatsby in Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby.'

Authorship, Howard Hawkes (Book), Hawkes, Howard, McCarthy, Todd

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Realized ambitions

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Walter Hill, one of a group of influential film directors who were dismissed as brutalists in the 1970s, has directed a body of complex and mature films that challenge the shallow stereotypes of more commercially successful action movies. His latest film is 'Wild Bill.'

Violence in motion pictures, Movie violence, Hill, Walter (American movie director)

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Dostoyevsky behind a camera: Oliver Stone is making great American novels on film

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Oliver Stone's films are multi-layered, their themes taken from news stories, with melodrama and spiritualism added. Stone's work is compared with the books of Dostoyevsky. Both men's relationships with their fathers were central to their work.

Novelists, Stone, Oliver, Natural Born Killers (Motion picture), Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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