Word: angele
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Last Laugh, it remains one of the most fluid, and at the end, accurately satirical movies we have. Emil Jannings, the master of pompous pathos gives an unforgettable performance, although one can keep as steadier head about both this and his harrowing work in The Blue Angel in remembering his Nazi complicity. The happy tail tacked on to The Last Laugh was apparently a specifically comtemptuous stab at American film tastes. It is almost impossible not to be elated despite the fantastic slur...
...about men? The Marias make a rather half-hearted attempt to present their side of the story, but all the male characters fall into the pattern of the callous and insensitive French cavalier with a monotonous sameness. There is one exception--a sympathetic cousin whom Mariana calls her "guardian angel"--but he proves to be an unstable character and, like her, commits suicide...
Born. To Melanie, 28, tearjerking, angel-faced balladeer of innocence and hurt (A Brand-New Key; Momma, Momma), and her producer-husband Peter Schekeryk, 32: their second child, second daughter; in Neptune, N.J. Name: Jeordie...
Burn all high school yearbooks, tell loathsome lies to old roommates who telephone after 20 years, on pain of black despair avoid sentimental journeys to childhood beer gardens, and never, never reread Look Homeward, Angel. But here comes Science Fiction Writer Ray Bradbury's magical boyhood novel Dandelion Wine, republished in a new edition after 19 years. Is its magic powerful enough to make it young again, or is its neck corded and scrawny in the collar of that new dust jacket...
...summer; blink twice and it's gone. Thanks to the publisher for bringing it back. Now, let's have J.B. Pick's The Last Valley again. And John Graves' Goodbye to a River and Journey Into Fear. Charles Morgan's Sparkenbroke. Even Look Homeward, Angel. Riches untold, retold. Terrible risks. ∙John Skow