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15 picks · 1969–1989

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DOCTOR IN SPITE OF HIMSELF
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PROFILE of Dr. Jonathan Miller, who was a cast member of the "Beyond the Fringe" revue, & a neuropsychologist. "I never had a sense of humor," he has …

Hic Haec Hoc
fiction ·

Diana is being tutored by Professor David Reid about Chaucer when Prof. Hugh Hower-Bennett shouts through the open door that Jane Shaw, Ph.D. will be …

Stephanie, Stephen, Steph, Steve
fiction ·

Stephanie Angelica Bysehe Talbot Duncan is born in 1929, the daughter of Stephen and Stephanie Duncan. Her mother's great-great-grandfather Stephen had…

THE DANGEROUS EDGE
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PROFILE of writer Graham Greene, 74, interviewed from his flat in Antibes, in the South of France. His life is balanced on a hairbreadth brink between …

Diane Keaton: Her Own Best Disputant
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Penelope Gilliatt’s 1978 Profile of the “Annie Hall” star: “one of the most comedically pure and brainy actresses in our midst.”

Galaxy Crisis
the current cinema ·

Review of Luchino Visconti's film, "Ossessione", made in 1942. For years it was forbidden public showing in this country, because it is based on James …

THE URGENT WHISPER
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PROFILE of film maker Jean-Luc Godard. Writer talks to Godard at his home and studio in Grenoble. Describes both places. Godard talks about making films …

THE DECOY FANATIC
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PROFILE of Henri Langlois, 61, film historian & collector, & founder of the great Cinematheque Francaise, through which he is the father of the middle …

GUILTY, WITH AN EXPLANATION
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PROFILE of Woody Allen, comedian, writer & film producer. Allen works all the time, in California & N.Y.; one's impression is that he gives up anything…

PLAYING
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PROFILE of Jacques Tati, the great French comedian & movie-maker. His films include "Jour de Fete" (1949), "Les Vacances de M. Hulot (1953), "Mon Oncle" …

Iron Larks
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In London Prof. Pemberton Johnson was visiting his friends Professors Philip Scropes and his wife Nora. Pemberton fled to America at the beginning of World…

LE MENEUR DE JEU
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PROFILE of the 75-year-old French movie maker, Jean Renoir.