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A four-time Oscar-nominated supporting actor of the first degree, Claude Rains came to film in middle age after a highly successful career on the British stage.  He further distinguished  himself on the silver screen with his distinctive voice and often villainous screen presence.

代表作：美人計  (Notorious)

       北非諜影(Casablanca)

       史密斯遊美京 (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington)

圖文選自： Reel Classics

Whether Welles cribbed from Mankiewicz -- who objected to having to share writing credit in the finished film -- or whether it was Toland rather than Welles who was responsible for the unusual photographic effects and visual design, in the last analysis it's immaterial. It is the impact of the final work that counts, and has there ever been a film that made a greater impact -- whether it was a director's first or his 20th film -- than ''Citizen Kane'' when it came to the screen in 1941? To this day, it still ranks first on most serious critics' lists of all-time great films. Still in his mid-20's, Orson Welles was hailed as the genius of American movies; and if he owed a debt to his gifted collaborators, that's the director's job, after all, to draw on the talents around him to compose the work of art the audience sees.

圖文選自紐約時報 “ ‘Despite the System’：The Kane Mutiny ”

As to Blanche's anxieties about her brutish, sexually magnetic brother-in-law, Stanley Kowalski, she can put her mind to rest there, too. John C. Reilly is portraying Stanley in Edward Hall's revival for the Roundabout Theater Company of Tennessee Williams's 1947 masterwork, and Mr. Reilly seems neither threatening nor - how to put this? - erotically overwhelming.

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UPN has decided to bring "Star Trek: Enterprise" - the latest version of the saga - to an end and to give the whole idea of "Star Trek" a creative rest…The original "Star Trek" series proved what a little imagination, a little patience and a lot of plywood and foam core could do for televised science fiction. It ran for only three seasons on NBC in the late 1960's but attracted a devoted following that seems, somehow, to have replicated itself by cloning. It also inspired four additional series, 10 "Star Trek" movies and a delightful parody called "Galaxy Quest."

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In Mr. Pendleton's play, the jump-or-push clash between Olivier and Welles escalated until the great actor edged out the great director.

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Over the Rainbow by Judy Garland

Somewhere over the rainbow
Way up high
There's a land that I've heard of once in a lullaby

Somewhere over the rainbow
Skies are blue
And the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true

音樂出處：http://www.reelclassics.com/Musicals/Wizoz/wizoz.htm

It was not always as daring as Warner Brothers, Paramount or RKO...On the other hand, it is the studio where King Vidor directed Garland singing "Over the Rainbow" and later, when idiots thought the song too sad, Mayer said, "Keep it in the picture."
選自紐約時報，作者 David Thomson

這個現代戲劇及習作，是成大中文系大四的必修課。我每學年讀一百多個原創劇本，讓我認識已有文學創作基礎的中文系學生，不少也洞悉劇本寫作的美妙。而他們筆下常有放在心裡的人物，如台灣桑椹農場中細巧的農婦、半線(編按：彰化市舊稱）那口井邊無猜的童侶、日本料理店妙語如珠的店員、在建築工地上崗維持家計的婦女、開家庭理髮店很多男士追求的寡母、精神科候診室的病友、賭光布莊家業的叔公、安養院裡光怪陸離的老人，和私房中親疏無解的網戀男女等等。當每位作者在課堂搬演自己劇本的片段，使我們的眼睛接續到校園大榕樹頂之外不遠，依然親近的台灣，更聽見各式各樣角色的聲音情懷。期盼新一代的文學家願意為我們的舞台書寫劇本。
詳見聯合報，作者汪其楣教授現任教成大中文系

He has the self-questioning timber and tired, open face of someone long battered by doubt. The same quality is surprisingly and affectingly carried over into the speech Brutus makes to the frightened mob after Caesar has been slain.
圖文選自紐約時報 (2005.4.4)