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...Director George Stevens (Shane, The Diary of Anne Frank), lugging along blueprints for this unwieldy magnum opus on the life of Christ, a work begun some five years and $20 million ago under benign auspices. "In creative association" with Poet Carl Sandburg, Stevens and Co-Author James Lee Barrett begat a script based loosely on Fulton Oursler's bestseller, on the Old and New Testament, and on other writings ancient and modern. His goal, Stevens proclaimed, was to create a definitive biography, "a Biblical classic that has vigor in ideas-with no souped-up spectacles, no sword fights...
...addition to reviewing the story of his orphanage days told in Bottom Dogs, the autobiography amplifies the tortuous relationship between son and mother. There is sacrifice and love and anger but no accusations about Lizzie's poverty or promiscuity--"unlike Hamlet, I cannot accuse the womb that begat me." In fact Dahlberg shares Lizzie's searches for love, for sex and for enough food to live and for enough peace to enjoy living. And these searches provide the constant goals--or mirages--in an otherwise rambling book...
...almost twice as high as in the same period last year. Weltner expects further improvement, thanks to such current successes as Becket and Seven Days in May. A small, freckled man who resembles neither a movie mogul nor a matinee idol, Welt ier is a chemist by training who begat, in the darkroom during the early '20s. How did he reach the summit of Paramount's star-ringed mountain? Says Weltner, with a grin: "Longevity, that...
Some of the trends beneath the headlines may seem frivolous, but they bear watching as part of life in a modern world. As Music reports this week, all Christendom has lately learned that rock 'n' roll begat what Englishmen call "the beat," and the beat begat the Beatles. But not so many people outside the territory of some astute British journals realize that rock-turned-beat has actually had a salutary effect on some of the toughest juveniles in England, turning them away from delinquency and toward something that Music describes as "better than beating up old ladies...
...musical metamorphosis of Merseyside is only one of the wonders rock 'n' roll has worked in England. As all Christendom has learned, rock also begat what Englishmen call "the beat," and the beat begat the Beatles. The Beatles are all old Merseyside types, and only a few million dollars ago they were trooping around the rock clubs there, playing for carfare like everyone else. Now they have become such a crucial factor in English life that conservative candidates have been officially cautioned not to omit some friendly word for them from their speeches, and the Queen has expressed...