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THIS is the dramatic moment a hero crane driver plucks a workman from the side of a 16-storey building to save him from being burnt to death. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

* Peter Gardiner was named to the new position of director of program development at Time Inc., New York. He previously was a senior vice president and group media director [...]

Film director Robert Benton first saw Truffaut's film 'Jules et Jim' at a time of great sadness in his life. He saw it as a film about survival, and it came to have a great impact on him. He continues to admire the complexity of character contained in the film, which shows characters developing and changing in a way which was unusual for US Films.

Actor Tom Conti saw the film 'The Great Caruso' 15 times in three weeks when he was 13. He was extremely moved by the music, and was fascinated with the life history of Caruso, the great Italian opera singer. Conti was brought up with opera, and had music lessons from an early age. He wanted to be a singer for some time, so identified very closely with Caruso. Events in the film were later to be reflected in his own life in his relationship with his parents.

Federico Fellini's film 'La Strada' had a great impact on author Bernice Rubens, dealing directly with her fears about the inability of people to communicate with each other. For her, the beautiful silence contained in the film confirmed her desire to express herself silently. She was particularly struck by the music used in the film, which served to express what the characters were unable to say to each other.

Ingmar Bergman's 'The Seventh Seal' was the first film with subtitles which Melvyn Bragg had seen, and thus had a deep impact on him. It made him take more interest in the film, which raised fundamental questions for him. It caused him to question the existence of God, and he was very affected by the fact that the film seriously questioned what it was like to live in the Middle Ages. The film contained a high level of documentary realism which he had never experienced before.

IT WAS branded 'Panic Saturday' as millions of Britons hit the high street yesterday in search of Christmas bargains - but many savvy shoppers were busy returning presents and goods they had already bought, so they could snap them up again as prices tumble. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]