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How fame got the better of Treat Williams

By Ray Bennett LONDON – Treat Williams, who died aged 71 on June 12 in a motorcycle accident, became instantly famous in the movie version of ‘Hair’ in 1979. After shining brightly in Sidney Lumet’s fine 1981 cop picture ‘Prince … Continue reading

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LOCARNO FILM REVIEW: Tayfun Pirselimoglu’s ‘Hair’

By Ray Bennett LOCARNO, Switzerland – Turkish director Tayfun Pirselimoglu’s “Hair” is a dreary and dispiriting tale of a wig seller dying of cancer who becomes obsessed with a woman married to a man who washes corpses for a living. … Continue reading

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