This sextet of masterly, pared-down existential fables, all standing up to numerous viewings, ensures him a permanent place in movie history.
Here, then, is our list of 10 stars who might fare better with a permanent move to Toontown, now with double the movie clips!
Warren Lieberfarb, president of home video for Warner Bros., would like to sell permanent copies of movies over the Movielink service, something that would take the place of purchasing DVD's for some consumers.
Mr. McCoy, 46, a former banker, is hoping to turn an internship into a permanent job at a movie development company.
THIRTY years ago, when he was a student at New York University, Jim Jarmusch used some scholarship money meant for tuition to make a movie called "Permanent Vacation".
At the same time, Edwards places his permanent children in a movie that, like the original, is utterly adult in its element of social commentary and in its earnest tone.
Jack, shy and shambling and fundamentally decent, is a descendant of Ernest Borgnine's Marty, the Bronx butcher in Delbert Mann's 1955 film of that name (with a script by Paddy Chayefsky), whose fumblings and yearnings earned him a permanent place in American movie memory.
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Last month, both Movielink and CinemaNow, which had previously only allowed customers to rent movies via the Internet, began letting customers buy and download permanent copies of the movies to their PCs.
(We're still awaiting, with diminishing assurance, the similar steps that might make digital 3-D a permanent fixture of the movies).
