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“I did a dance sequence in my second short film, which was my best short film, called 'Hairway to the Stars,' and I think Chris Wink, the founder of Blue Man Group, was in that. It's a black-and-white dance sequence. We were Glorious Food waiters together.”

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Author:David O. Russell

“It was my mustache that landed jobs for me. In those silent-film days it was the mark of a villain. When I realized they had me pegged as a foreign nobleman type I began to live the part, too. I bought a pair of white spats, an ascot tie and a walking stick.”

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Author:Adolphe Menjou

“With the black and white films, one was concerned with tone... You had to make sure that the tone of your dress was not the same tone as the curtains, for instance.”

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Author:Julie Harris

“I love to snuggle up on the sofa wrapped in my duvet watching old black and white films, and catching up with friends and family on the phone.”

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Author:Martine McCutcheon

“I admire hard-bitten, wisecracking realism of Ida Lupino and the film noir heroines. I'm sick of simpering white girls with their princess fantasies.”

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Book:Vamps & Tramps: New Essays

Source: Vamps & Tramps: New Essays

“It is the fear of death - 24/7 in every shade of hospital white and doomsday black--that sells the pharmaceutical, political, financial, film, and food product promising to make good the wish to live forever.”

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Author:Lewis H. Lapham

“Although The Terminator is arguably the more visionary of the first two films, [Terminator 2] is the more visually and viscerally satisfying. It's an exhausting experience and, even 18 years after its release (as I write this review), few films have matched it within the science fiction genre for sheer white-knuckle exhilaration.”

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Author:James Berardinelli

“There'll be a black lesbian in the White House before I'm James Bond.”

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Author:Rupert Everett

“I made this movie for $40,000, which was this little black-and-white horror film called Dementia 13, which we made in about nine days.”

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Author:Francis Ford Coppola

“Yes, Manila had its slums; one saw them on the drive from the airport: vast districts of men in dirty white undershirts lounging idly in front of auto-repair shops - like a poorer version of the 1950s America depicted in such films as Grease.”

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Book:The Reluctant Fundamentalist

Source: The Reluctant Fundamentalist