Blake Edwards, the writer and director whose films included "Breakfast at Tiffany's," "The Pink Panther," "10," and "Victor/Victoria," died last night at age 88 from complications of pneumonia. The NY Times calls him a "master of screwball farces and rude comedies" in its obituary, which also mentions that was he was a lifelong depressive and mentions a humorous anecdote about why he thought Julie Andrews, before he met and eventually married her, was so successful ("She has lilacs for pubic hair").
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Director Blake Edwards Dies At 88
Weekend Movie Forecast: Skater Boys Vs. Snuffleupagus
A train hopping skate boarder gets blood on his deck after fending off a brutal rail yard security guard in Gus Van Sant’s moody Paranoid Park. In her rhapsodic Times review, Manohla Dargis swoons over Van Sant’s “use of different film speeds and jump cuts, and his tendency to underscore his own storytelling" in the Portland, Oregon-set film. But Van Sant fan Jeffrey Wells calls it “meandering and even dreary… nowhere near as striking or stylistically distinguished as Van Sant's Elephant and Last Days.”
At Hunter, Pro-Business Group Buys Course for 10K
Controversy is swirling around a course offered at Hunter College that an untenured professor says he was pressured to “teach.” The course was paid for last year by the International Anti-Counterfeiting Coalition [IACC], an industry group combating the proliferation of cheap counterfeit clothes, jewelry, accessories, etc.
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