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...hard to imagine Hellman being cute by wrinkling the nose she once threw herself from a tree to break for an excuse to have it reset: afterward, she said, "it looked different but not different enough." As much in evidence as the celebrated leads William Powell, Loy and Asta are a bunch of little performances which let you take away as much as you might have from big ones...
...bassets, one Great Pyrenees and a pride of kittens. Modern Living Reporter-Researcher Audrey Ball shares an unlikely menagerie with her daughter Tracy, 8: their tabby, Leslie, five delicious goldfish and two tantalizing white mice. Other pet owners include Managing Editor Henry Grunwald, whose wire-haired terrier Bravo resembles Asta in the Thin Man movies of the '30s; Assistant Managing Editor Richard Seamon, who is putting his nine-week-old Labrador through basic training; and Zookeeper-Essayist Stefan Kanfer, who rooms with two mice, five turtles and two cats somewhere in Tarrytown, N.Y. Reporter-Researcher Mary Themo, while getting...
...hunches are right, I cannot imagine anyone who has read this far shelling out $3.60 to view such incredible denounment. Especially since you now know who did it. Charade, beyond doubt, is just another futile Hollywood attempt to reproduce a giddy thriller of the William Powell-Myrna Loy-Asta Thin Man vintage...
...Thin Man (Fri. 9:30 p.m., E.D.T., NBC). Though his own private eye is often trained on blondes, Nick Charles (Peter Lawford) has a pert wife named Nora (Phyllis Kirk) to whom he is professedly faithful, and a wire-haired terrier named Asta who is faithful to him. Genteel and wryly suave, Nick seldom tangles physically with the blackmailers, assassins and sundry evildoers whom he ferrets out with one hand while reaching for a martini with the other. He rarely finishes a drink during the half-hour program, giving the impression that he is a frustrated alcoholic...
Among others there are Sir Storrington Thirst ("he had a habit of laying his hands upon you"); mannish Asta Thundersley (she collects paintings of "tumors wearing spectacles, wombs in aspic, ulcers in floral hats"); The Tiger Fitzpatrick, spavined prizefighter ("all I want is a chance at this so-called Braddock"); Mothmar Acord ("a dish-shaped face, discolored by oriental suns and high fevers") ; Sinclair Wensday ("a cocaine personality . . . tall and popular . . . Galahad gone to the devil"). At his best Author Kersh writes like a comic Soho Gorki, drawing wicked, lively sketches of the barflies, pimps, fairies and phonies of London...