Word: bachelor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...loose. New York's "Mad Bomber" was the terror of the city and the darling of crime reporters as he planted his homemade pipe-and-powder bombs in theaters and public buildings. Once captured, he turned out to be quiet, round-faced George Metesky, a 54-year-old bachelor who was more confused than cunning (TIME, Feb. 4). Last week, after studying Metesky's medical reports, Kings County Judge Samuel Leibowitz noted that Metesky, too unsound of mind to stand trial, is also dying of tuberculosis, committed him to a state hospital for the criminally insane. Said Leibowitz...
Gentlemen's clubs aren't the only place where pornographic movies are shown. In a bachelor apartment in Brooklyn five white collar workers watched them into the early hours of the morning, with quite ungentlemanly motives. Three of them watched because they were a little drunk and a little fed up with their wifes, one because he was a virgin and was going to be married in two days, and the other because he just liked...
...Bachelor Party, the second hyper-realistic effort of Hecht-Hill-Lancaster, is about the stunning weight of responsibility, and the revulsion from it, that a young man feels when his wife becomes pregnant for the first time. His protest against the complications of a home and family that are about to entangle him for life becomes a desire to sleep with a young woman he meets in Greenwich Village on the night of the party...
Aside from this The Bachelor Party is succesful and well worth seeing. Charley, the young man (Don Murray), and his wife (Pat Smith) are both properly ordinary looking and, their intent being to act as naturally and untheatrically as possible, do very well. Jack Warner is just right in another of his Dodger fan roles and E.G. Marshall gives a good performance, if he is a little too intent on stripping bare his character for all to see. Carolyn Jones gives the best performance as the fast and intellectually chic Villager who is so wretched that she doesn't know...
...apparently supposed to be a daring one. At the risk of offending the entire prostitute population, Playwright Chayefsky has come out firmly on the side of marital fidelity. But a reasonably attentive moviegoer will realize that Chayefsky offers genuine insights as well as phony issues. And in The Bachelor Party these insights have been skillfully translated to the screen by Director Delbert Mann, who made Marty. The scenes in the subway and the office are first-rate epigrams of locale. The reluctant groom C Philip Abbott) is a hilarious but touching study of altar nerves ("She's going...