IN the sausage factory of moviemaking the remake is an age-old temptation. For love or money (but usually money) studios have tapped old stories for different times, fresh stars and ambitious directors, streamlining conceits and translating inconvenient foreign languages. Fans of the originals usually cry desecration, and even talented remakers...
The clatter of typewriters and the rattle of whiskey bottles in desk drawers; the haze of cigarette smoke in the air; the fedoras and notepads, the sleeve garters and eyeshades; the cries of ''Copy!'' and ''Get me rewrite!'' Remember newspapers? Neither do I, to tell you the truth, even though I've been working at this one for more than 10 years....
IT'S easy to recognize the Bad Girl. She's usually a bottle blonde, stuffed into a tight sweater that outlines her oddly conical breasts. Her mouth is wide, painted and clamped on a cigarette. Her eyes burn a little too brightly, and her legs, planted in a pair of high-rise pumps, go on forever. This exotic specimen began appearing in American...
Billy Wilder (egentlig Samuel Wilder) (22. juni 1906 i Sucha, Galicien i Østrig-Ungarn (nuværende Polen) - 27. marts 2002 i Los Angeles, Californien, USA) var en polsk-amerikansk filminstruktør.
Han har vundet to Oscar for bedste instruktør med filmene The Lost Weekend (1945) og The Apartment i 1960. Han har fået en stjerne på Hollywood Walk of Fame.