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Terry Johnson (writer)
Release Date:
2 August 1985 (USA)
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The object of every man's fantasy and the greatest mind of the century are about to meet. more
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Four 1950's icons meet in the same hotel room and two of them discover more in common between them than they ever anticipated. full summary | add synopsis
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(3 articles)
Marilyn. Never Allowed to Rest in Peace
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Doc Filmmaker Havana Marking's Top Ten Films of All Time
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(From FilmExperience. 3 August 2009, 9:00 AM, PDT)
Doc Filmmaker Havana Marking's Top Ten Films of All Time
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Brilliant Explanation of Relativity
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Michael Emil | ... | The Professor |
 | Theresa Russell | ... | The Actress |
 | Tony Curtis | ... | The Senator |
 | Gary Busey | ... | The Ballplayer |
| Will Sampson | ... | Elevator Attendant |
 | Patrick Kilpatrick | ... | Driver |
| Ian O'Connell | ... | Assistant Director |
| George Holmes | ... | Actor |
| Richard Davidson | ... | Director of Photography |
| Mitchell Greenberg | ... | Technician |
| Raynor Scheine | ... | Autograph Hunter |
 | Jude Ciccolella | ... | Gaffer |
| Lou Hirsch | ... | Charlie |
| Ray Charleson | ... | Bud |
| Joel Cutrara | ... | Bar Drunk |
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110 min
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The four icons are, respectively: Marilyn Monroe, her husband Joe DiMaggio, Albert Einstein and senator Joseph McCarthy.
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The Actress:
I only said I knew, because you said you knew.
The Professor: I lied. Knowledge isn't truth. It's just mindless agreement. You agree with me, I agree with someone else - we all have knowledge. We haven't come any closer to the truth. You can never understand anything by agreeing, by making definitions. Only by turning over the possibilities. That's called thinking. If I say I know, I stop thinking. As long as I keep thinking, I come to understand. That way, I might approach some truth.
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The Professor: I lied. Knowledge isn't truth. It's just mindless agreement. You agree with me, I agree with someone else - we all have knowledge. We haven't come any closer to the truth. You can never understand anything by agreeing, by making definitions. Only by turning over the possibilities. That's called thinking. If I say I know, I stop thinking. As long as I keep thinking, I come to understand. That way, I might approach some truth.
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Features Hiroshima mon amour (1959)
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America
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I agree with the synopsis: it's not the best of Roeg's works but it has what just might be the best scene in movie history, which describes in elegant detail Einstein's theory of relativity. The fact that Marilyn Monroe explains it to Einstein is the capper! It makes it even more interesting knowing that MM and Einstein not only knew each other but admired one another.