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...Your picture shows Mr. Kenyatta with Kikuyu dancers and one gentleman who is not a Kenyan at all. At Mr. Kenyatta's side, with a short grey beard, stands Orlando Martins, a distinguished Nigerian actor who is here with me filming Max Catto's Mister Moses...
With his short, rotund figure and his spade beard, Professor Norbert Wiener of M.I.T. looked like a harmless Santa Claus. Instead he bristled with versatility. He was a top-rank mathematician who fathered a new branch of science, an enthusiastic mountain climber, and a facile writer of both fiction and philosophy. He could talk intelligently on almost any subject. When he died of a heart attack in Stockholm last week, his colleagues the world over testified to a special sense of loss. For Wiener was one of a vanishing crew-a first-rate scientist whose curiosity and skills covered...
...life of lives inanimate and the love of loves impersonal. The naif image is mischievous chiefly in so far as it holds unbelievers back from conversions. It does believers, even at its crudest, no harm. What soul ever perished for believing that God the Father really has a beard...
...plot, but I can't say I felt like puzzling it out. So let me refer to a printed synopsis: Vera is a lovely girl who has been courted by two men for seven years--Leo (Marty Greenbaum), who is quiet and awkward, and Jack (Peter H. Beard), who is handsome and unpredictable. Since each suitor sees the girl differently, Vera is played by two actresses (Sheila Finn and Peggy Steffans). This is clever. In the eighth year Vera marries Gideon, who never appears; and Jack and Leo go off on a camping trip in the Vermont Hills to forget...
...actors, particularly Mr. Beard, throw themselves into their "zany romantic comedy" with breathless enthusiasm, and I can only marvel that the tiny cast did not sustain several fatalities in its wild romps through Vermont. I also find it a great shame that this exuberant and refreshing amateur spirit--which could do much for the good of the American cinema--has been so subverted in Hallelujah the Hills by the arty pretensions of producer and director...