'Get Smart' Goes Hollywood, with Mixed Results
The '60s sitcom was often a one-joke affair; the film's starry-eyed geek has room for nuance. You can make a case for both Maxes, but critic David Edelstein misses the tube's lovable boob. Anne Hathaway's Agent 99, now ... that's another matter.
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Saluting AFI's Great American Genre Films: Part 1
The American Film Institute named 10 ten best American movies in 10 different genres. Today's Fresh Air presents interviews with Eva Marie Saint, Robert Towne, Faye Dunaway, Kirk Douglas, Tony Curtis and Peter O'Toole — all of whom have work on the list.
Robert Town and Faye Dunaway on the movie Chinatown.
Screenwriter Robert Towne and actress Faye Dunaway worked together on Chinatown (mystery, No. 2) and Bonnie and Clyde (gangster, No. 5).
Spartacus, an epic film
Kirk Douglas' and Tony Curtis' performances in Stanley Kubrick's Spartacus helped earn the film the fifth position in the epics category.
The Camels Were 'Impossible': Peter O'Toole Remembers 'Arabia'
Lawrence of Arabia, which starred Peter O'Toole, was named the best epic.
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