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JERRY LEWIS, who tries not to be funny, and fails-chiefly because his squeaky voice is a weird amalgam of Al Jolson and Baby Snooks-in Rock-a-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody (Decca). But his album, Jerry Lewis Just Sings, is a bestseller...
...traditions of the late 18th and 19th centuries. Then, as their strength was exhausted in the battle against modern steel, the fight was taken over by the stolid nerveless men of the factories, inspired by Utopian ideals of a democratic workers' state. The Man of the Year was an amalgam of all these men and of all their qualities...
Background: Born in Brussels on Jan. 25, 1899, Spaak, like his native land, is an amalgam of two widely divergent strains. His Flemish father was one of Belgium's best-known artists, a poet, playwright and director of the Brussels Royal Opera. His mother, a Walloon, was Belgium's first woman Senator, the daughter of one of the nation's great 19th century liberal leaders and the sister of a former Prime Minister...
...served up by CBS on Climax! Its hour-long production of The Louella Parsons Story scored a handsome 27.0 Trendex-the highest rating ever won by the show. What viewers saw was a sudsy narrative with all the impact of a souffle hitting a concrete wall. In a slick amalgam of film and live TV, Teresa Wright played Gossipist Louella to near-perfection, catching the whining needle of the Parsonian voice and delivering ex cathedra pronouncements on Louella's likes (dancing, pretty clothes, dogs, young people, food and Hollywood) and dislikes (being called "Lolly," being lied to about stories...
Modern Russian novels are rather like intricate tapestries: each position has effect and meaning only when one considers the development of the total work. Dostoyevsky's Idiot is no exception. An amalgam of theology, philosophy and realism, it is complex and ponderous. Any attempt to bring it to the screen is ambitious, and though the interpretation at the Brattle may not retain all of the profundity of the prose, it represents a moderate artistic success...