Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nicer people they don't come. I hope it'll blow over like little grey clouds." But the clouds kept darkening-as far away as Miami. There, Artist Ralph Cowan was stuck with a life-size portrait of Debbie that she had ordered for Eddie's birthday. "Now she doesn't want it," said Cowan. He also had a portrait of Liz on hand. "The man who ordered it never finished the payments." So Cowan shipped it to an eager buyer, Eddie Fisher. It seemed like the most sensible maneuver of the week...
London Surgeon Henry Gray, who died at 34 in 1861, won immortality with a book. Last week his Gray's Anatomy celebrated its looth birthday with a fat new centenary issue that made young Dr. Gray look more alive than ever. Medical students round the world have for generations hefted Gray's weight (now 6 Ibs. 4 oz.), painfully leafed his pages (now 1,604) and paid his price (now $18) in order to learn what Gray taught himself...
...fragile health but still painting, Primitivist Grandma Moses passed a quiet 98th birthday at Eagle Bridge...
...athlete now tying on the booze bag every night in search of the "click in my head." Together they have come back to Big Daddy's "28,000 of the richest acres west of the River Nile," ostensibly for a family celebration of Big Daddy's 65th birthday. But the real cause of the gathering is the news that Big Daddy (Burl Ives) may be dying, and Maggie's real mission is to protect her share of the inheritance from Brick's brother Gooper (Jack Carson), a prolific dullard whose major contribution to the world...
...noisy cataract of the birthday party plunges along, the film swirls in tightening circles around each of the characters in turn, eroding the muddy façades they have built up for themselves. Burl Ives, under his robes of benevolent paterfamilias, is superb as a ruthless and contriving tyrant who has lived for 40-odd years with a woman he despises, and raised two sons only to be able to boast of a namesake. Gooper still sweats with jealousy over his brother's schoolboy athletic triumphs, and Maggie yearns pitiably for Brick's love and for the creature...