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Books about antiques.(Book Review)
The Magazine Antiques
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February 1, 2005|
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A mammoth book
If a picture is worth a thousand words, is a huge picture worth two thousand? The question might well be asked about The Complete Collection of Antiquities from the Cabinet of Sir William Hamilton, which is sold without a lectern, although one is certainly needed. The book is 17 3/4 inches tall, 12 inches wide, and weighs 14 pounds. There is a built-in bookmark nearly an inch wide that appears to be silk. It comes wrapped in tissue paper lest it defile the pages.
Sir William Hamilton is known for his interest in volcanoes, which he studied ...
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The real Mona Lisa Mysterious, sultry, mistress of illusion, the legendary Marlene Dietrich personified the dream world of the movies
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...her mentor-director-lover Joseph von Sternberg carefully shaped and stoked in...group of films she made with von Sternberg -- "Morocco," "Dishonored...and "The Devil Is a Woman." Von Sternberg, a poet as well as a technician...
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Los mejores de Dietrich.(películas de Marlene Dietrich, actriz)(TT: The best of Dietrich.)(TA: movies by Marlene Dietrich, actress)(Reseña)
Magazine article from: Epoca
; ...expreso de Shanghai (1932) Si Joseph Von Sternberg se invent a Marlene Dietrich...culminacin del mito Dietrich. Von Sternberg la retrataba amorosamente, entre...una amalgama de sus personajes Von Sternberg, pero mirados desde la frialdad...
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Marlene, black, white and blue
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post
; ...Sunday at 5 p.m. Directed by Joseph von Sternberg, this is the film in which Dietrich...both her and her then-lover von Sternberg Hollywood contracts. They worked...filming continued. Among the other von Sternberg films showing at the Tel Aviv...
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Das wilde Kind
Magazine article from: Film - Dienst
; ...Politikgeschichte. Ein deutscher Enkel von Balzac und Zola. Am Ende seines...Produktivitt beginnt mit dem Sehen von Filmen, bereits als Kind zwei...neue Zusammenhnge erschafft. Wie Joseph von Sternberg das Licht setzt, um Marlene Dietrich...
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Archivist Bradley was a true Hollywood classic
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times
; ...film cans and boxes towered overhead. "I brought Joseph von Sternberg back here one day," Bradley recalled, "and he...meet them. The guest lists over the years included von Sternberg, Fritz Lang, Claire Windsor, Madge Bellamy, Mae...
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 "The Birmingham Post (England)")
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Luvvies in a cold climate; Alison Jones sees stars on a trip to Berlin during the famous film festival.(News)
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England)
; ...released V for Vendetta. Directors Billy Wilder and Joseph Von Sternberg began their careers in Berlin, as did local girl...even her custom made vanity case, commissioned by Von Sternberg. Revealingly, nestling alongside the hair combs...
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NAMES & FACES A blue angel in disguise
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...access to valuable information because he studied with Joseph von Sternberg, Dietrich's mentor. "I studied with von Sternberg for two years," said Bach. "That was the link...
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Louise Brooks: Alluring onscreen and forever after
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times
; ...engrossed his whole being with its flaming reality." Joseph von Sternberg, "with his detachment, could look at a woman and...if you ever saw (Dietrich) in those pre-Sternberg films, she was just a galloping cow . . . So he simply...
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DARK SHADOWS
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...Zero," a documentary about the doomed filming of Joseph von Sternberg's original "I, Claudius," which was slated to...Production folded after six weeks, but some of Sternberg's footage was recovered in the 1960s. Find out...
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Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...Makart, painter, 1840; Heinrich von Kaan, pianist and composer, 1852...Oswald Spengler, philosopher, 1880; Joseph von Sternberg, film director, 1894; Erich Wolfgang...diplomat and historian, 1877; Julius von Sachs, botanist and naturalist...
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