There is no doubt in my mind it was the best movie ever made, with the "battle of the anthems" the absolute high point of the film. The fact that the crowd in that scene was made up of actual refugees makes it more poignant. Only three cast members were not foreign born--Bogart, Dooley Wilson, and Joy Page.
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t is an astonishing work in many ways._____
Virtually every shot, line and gesture in Casablanca is charged with meaning. There is so much history, so much pathos in each sequence and performance. The experience of the characters, including the peripheral ones, despite the movie’s inevitably glamorized and sometimes clichéd presentation, was the experience of millions upon millions of people, in Europe especially, in the 1930s and 1940s: dictatorship, war, flight, deportation, detention, the loss of friends and family members, terror, anxiety, heroism and treachery.
Another royal wedding is in the works
He is a flame-haired former wild child, who courted controversy in his youth by smoking cannabis and by once wearing a Nazi uniform to a party. She is a biracial, divorced actress from abroad. Together, they are taking the British monarchy — that most conservative of institutions — into a more modern era.
Prince Harry, a grandson of Queen Elizabeth II and fifth in line to the throne, is engaged to Meghan Markle, his American girlfriend, the royal family said on Monday.
The prince, 33, and Ms. Markle, 36, will marry in the spring, a statement from Clarence House added.
At least the prince didn't find some young chick. I believe his brother also married an "older" woman, albeit she was just a few months older.
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