Word: ashley
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...dwarf, clambers onto the ship's rail to announce: "I'm Herr Glocken, and this is a ship of fools." Wading through heavy condensations of Miss Porter's prose, his fellow travelers check in to introduce themselves: the troubled and tire some young American lovers (Elizabeth Ashley, George Segal), a band of down-at-the-heel flamenco dancers led by Jose Greco, an anti-Semitic Nazi publisher (Jose Ferrer), a gentle Jewish salesman (Germany's Heinz Ruehmann) who can believe no evil of a nation that produced Goethe, Beethoven and Bach. Muses the worldly-wise ship...
...make Ship of Fools an event, but Kramer too often cuts away to supporting players who lurch along the decks and passageways spouting Meaningful Dialogue. The worst lines ("You know how frustrating it is to reach out for something, and then you find it isn't there") entangle Ashley and Segal, whose love life consists mostly of Social Significance. He, a man of the people, sketches the wretched Cuban sugar workers sweltering away in steerage. She, a girl of polish, prefers nice portraits, or maybe landscapes. Their conflict is resolved in bed, where the masses can't come...
...vacation." But under befuddled Director Jack Smight, none of Peppard's intimates react like normal human beings to the news that he cannot recall his name and address. A dithery old aunt (Mona Washbourne) starts spouting reams of plot exposition. His wealthy, neglected young wife (Elizabeth Ashley) strikes poses in doorways or on beds as though all the world were a fashion layout...
...finds a kindred soul in his father-in-law (Herbert Marshall), a tycoon smitten with aphasia and therefore exempted from many a dull speech. Reels later, the hero's name, his wife's pretty neck, his marriage and the fine china are salvaged. Actors Peppard and Ashley, a romantic duo off screen as well as on, toil in vain to capture the thrill of it all for posterity. What they see in each other will undoubtedly outlast The Third...
Steele has enormous tournament experience, which includes & victory a few years ago over Australia's Ashley Cooper, one of the world's best professionals. Yet at other times he plays totally uninspired tennis...