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Prejudice is a raft onto which...

Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety

Ben Hecht 81 quotes

Hollywood held this double lur...

Hollywood held this double lure for me, tremendous sums of money for work that required no more effort than a game of pinochle.

Ben Hecht 81 quotes

In Hollywood, a starlet is the...

In Hollywood, a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a brothel.

Ben Hecht 81 quotes

I have written a raucous valen...

I have written a raucous valentine to a poet's dream and agony.

Ben Hecht 81 quotes

People's sex habits are as wel...

People's sex habits are as well known in Hollywood as their political opinions, and much less criticized.

Ben Hecht 81 quotes

I lost my own son (Steven) at ...

I lost my own son (Steven) at 18, five years ago, in a car accident, so I can really sympathize with what the families have gone through.

Ben Hecht 81 quotes

Love is the magician that pull...

Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.

Ben Hecht 81 quotes

A man nearly always loves for ...

A man nearly always loves for other reasons than he thinks. A lover is apt to be as full of secrets from himself as is the object of his love from him.

Ben Hecht 81 quotes

In moderating, not satisfying ...

In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Ben Hecht 81 quotes

H.L.Mencken's war aims, accord...

H.L.Mencken's war aims, according to the handful of observers who deigned to notice his conflict, were the overthrow of American Democracy, the Christian religion, and the YMCA. He was also credited with trying to wipe out poets and luncheon orators.

Ben Hecht 81 quotes

That God has managed to surviv...

That God has managed to survive the inanities of the religions that do Him homage is truly a miraculous proof of His existence.

Ben Hecht 81 quotes

He was in love with life as an...

He was in love with life as an ant on a summer blade of grass.

Ben Hecht 81 quotes

Criticism can never instruct o...

Criticism can never instruct or benefit you. Its chief effect is that of a telegram with dubious news. Praise leaves no glow behind, for it is a writer's habit to remember nothing good of himself. I have usually forgotten those who have admired my work, and seldom anyone who disliked it. Obviously, this is because praise is never enough and censure always too much.

Ben Hecht 81 quotes

For many years Hollywood held ...

For many years Hollywood held this double lure for me, tremendous sums of money for work that required no more effort than a game of pinochle.

Ben Hecht 81 quotes

In Hollywood a starlet is the ...

In Hollywood a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a brothel.

Ben Hecht 81 quotes

The honors Hollywood has for t...

The honors Hollywood has for the writer are as dubious as tissue-paper cuff links.

Ben Hecht 81 quotes

Movies are one of the bad habi...

Movies are one of the bad habits that have corrupted our century. They have slipped into the American mind more misinformation in one evening than the Dark Ages could muster in a decade.

Ben Hecht 81 quotes

A movie is never any better th...

A movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it.

Ben Hecht 81 quotes

The movies are an eruption of ...

The movies are an eruption of trash that has lamed the American mind and retarded Americans from becoming cultured people.

Ben Hecht 81 quotes

The movies are one of the bad ...

The movies are one of the bad habits that corrupted our century.Of their many sins, I offer as the worst their effect on the intellectual side of the nation. It is chiefly from that viewpoint I write of them - as an eruption of trash that has lamed the American mind and retarded Americans from becoming a cultured people.

Ben Hecht 81 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

Мэрилин Монро, Ким Кардашьян и другие

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Неузнаваемая Ким Кардашьян в объективе фотографа Маркуса Клинко, 2009 год. Памела Андерсон в самой первой съёмке для журнала «Playboy», 1990. На фото голливудская актриса Dorothy Lamour и шимпанзе Джи...

Что стало с детьми-звездами: Рэдклифф и компания спустя годы

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

Жизнь за границей: как изменились судьбы 7 уехавших телеведущих

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

Кира Найтли, Деми Мур и другие

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....