Ljubica adzovic biography of martin
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INDEX
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Abdul, Paula, 136
A bout de souffle (1959, Breathless ), 8 , 29 , 151 fig.;
and 1983 Breathless,152 –53, 160 n3;
imagery of, 159 ;
linguistic transpositions of, 155 , 160 n4;
plot line of, 151 ;
problematic remake of, 150 ;
transfer of identity in, 154 –55
Abraham, Karl, 274 n10
Abril, Victoria, 201
Action Comics,288
Adams, Brooke, 25
Adam's Rib (1949), 170
Adaptations:
of films to comics, 281 , 282 fig., 283 , 292 n8;
of film to radio, 295 –97, 307 , 308 ;
of literary works to film, 53 , 170 n3, 295 , 296 , 333 –34n2;
mythical narratives and, 287 –90;
remakes vs.,31 , 284 ;
status of originals in, 284 –86, 292 n11;
translation vs.,284 , 290 .
See also M*A*S*H; Stagecoach; Translation
Adjani, Isabelle, 244 fig.
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), 7 , 70 –74, 72 fig., 78 n2
Adzovic, Ljubica, 176 fig., 184
African-American culture:
and The Benny Goodman Story,107 –8;
and The Jazz Singer,104 , 110 –11, 113 n9;
and The Jolso
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Over the years I have observed the growth of a girl I see every May at the Cannes Film Festival. I first noticed her as a child hanging onto the arm of her mother, who was begging in the street. Then she too was a beggar. One year she was part of a gang using the old pickpocket’s ploy, the request for directions. She approached with a large map, folded open, and asked how to find a hotel. She would hold her map above the purse of the woman she had asked for help, and while she gave directions, a smaller child could dip into the purse.
For the last few years, this girl, now a teenager, has been selling roses from table to table in restaurants – and sometimes, so the waiters will tell you, lifting a purse from the back of a chair.
Why this girl first caught my attention I cannot say. But once I first noticed her, I noticed her again year after year and realized that she was a member of a Gypsy contingent that paid the festival an annual visit just as I did. She is invisi
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