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3 unusual facts about The New Biographical Dictionary of Film


The New Biographical Dictionary of Film

Thomson notes that Clark Gable was a rising star at thirty: “Now, in our collective recollection, Gable may seem older, worldlier, and more grown-up than Cruise was at thirty. But when did Gable ever risk playing the jerk to whom Cruise was totally committed in The Color of Money? When was Gable as uninhibitedly tender as Cruise managed in Risky Business? And could Gable have survived the black-hole narcissism of Dustin Hoffman in Rain Man?”

The cover art has been reworked (There Will Be Blood replaces To Have and Have Not) along with a swell of new entries (over 100 in all, including Judd Apatow and Mark Wahlberg).

328 pages longer than the first edition, it added 200 new entries including Molly Ringwald.



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