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...What's your favorite of all the designs you've done? Abby Amberson, Madison, Wis. The [1994-1996] Face series, which generated a real Kitty boom. Until then, Kitty was designed for children and I carried around Hello Kitty merchandise only as samples, because I was the designer. But I actually bought up to 20 pieces from the Face range - five for myself and the rest for my friends - because I knew that from then on nobody would be telling me that Hello Kitty was just for kids...
...office Sara has two talents. She is a good editor and a better tease. Though nearly everyone on the staff of The American Woman is female, Neil Amberson, the top editor, is decidedly male, a discount sultan who sleeps with all of his editors once, then keeps them wondering why he didn't ask for seconds. Sara does get a return visit, in some of the raunchiest sex scenes in recent fiction, but it is all for nothing. She has misjudged who really has control of the magazine. Neil is on his way out, and Helene, his foul-mouthed...
...down-from-the-ceiling camera angles. The old Mercury Theatre gang is there, Joseph Cotton, Anne Baster, and Roy Collins, but the film cries out for the presence of the master himself. This film is an example of this failing, with bland and amateur Tim Holt as the young Amberson who must cope with the collapsing family empire. The film is thus flawed, but nonetheless carries the distinctive touch of the finest American film mind of all time. Channel...
...Ambersons is an exhausting picture. It is almost humorless, almost without physical action. George's megalomania, detestable but never dull, becomes wearing from repetition. Old Major Amberson is not sufficiently explained. Neither is the spread of U.S. industrialism which changes and befouls the Midwestern city...
...picture is a faithful adaptation of Booth Tarkington's 1918 Pulitzer-Prize-winning novel about the effect of U.S. industrialism on the feudal Midwest as embodied in the Ambersons. Founder of this dynasty (in 1873) is sharp-trading Major Amberson (Richard Bennett), who has become so rich that the magnificence of the Ambersons stands out in their little clapboard town like a plaid suit at a funeral. Last and worst of the clan is spoiled, arrogant Grandson George Amberson Minafer (Tim Holt), who gets his deserved "comeuppance" (in 1912) from the new industrialism which his baronial mind can neither...