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Cinema: Playing Tough, Going Nowhere

THE OUTSIDERS Directed by Francis Coppola Screenplay by Kathleen Knutsen Rowell”He's so greasy he glides when he walks.” This is Tulsa 1966, where lines of class and style are drawn as sharply as in any war, and there is no demilitarized zone. On one side is the “greaser,” teen descendant of Elvis, Brando and James Dean; poor white trash and proud of it

Roman Polanski: A life on celluloid

“I did lose my way many times,” said Robert Towne in a recent interview. “It took an ungodly amount of time to work on it — it was 10 months of solid work, and before that, there were several months of letting it gel enough to write it.” The process was worth it to Towne, however — he walked away with an Oscar for best original screenplay, the only one the film received in a year mostly overrun by “The Godfather Part II.” Director Roman Polanski’s film, starring Jack Nicholson as a 1930s detective who gets in over his head with intertwined scandals of murder, sodomy and real estate development, has become a modern classic