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This season's bounty includes volumes on far-out artists, unusual cats and enviable gardens.
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 For all of its nearly 50-year history, Saturday Night Live has been a deeply impractical show. Every week, a 90-minute episode is written and produced in a matter of days by a bunch of sleep-deprived comedians (some of whom, at certain points in the show's history, were on hard drugs). If the show was launched today,…
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 Michael Powell was born in the coastal English county of Kent. He started in the silent-era film industry of the 1920s, working countless studio odd jobs before he was promoted, in the 1930s, to directing low-budget "quota quickies," of which he made almost two dozen. His eventual creative partner, Emeric Pressburger,…
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