Word: blakely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...newest mother lode: the cold war between generations. In Peter Ustinov's Halfway Up the Tree, a parent, Anthony Quayle, hopes to prove himself hipper than the kids. The same goes for Jean Arthur, back onstage at 61, in Richard Chandler's The Freaking Out of Stephanie Blake. A household mutiny is also the theme of Keep It in the Family, a London import featuring Maureen O'Sullivan. Another West End hit making the passage: Terence Frisby's There's a Girl in My Soup, concerning a lady-killing culinary expert (Gig Young...
...years later, Writer-Director Blake Edwards has resurrected the hero of his finest half-hours. Trading up from TV to a wide screen and Technicolor is not the only change he has made. Regular Gunn Moll Lola Albright, who played Edie, and Herschel Bernardi, as Lieut. Jacoby, are gone, and by the finale, Mother's joint has become a discotheque. But the music is still by Mancini, and Craig Stevens retains his dry-ice delivery and his Gary Grant composure even in this preposterously plotted pursuit of a villain who killed one of Gunn's gangster friends...
...Paper Lion, Plimpton (8) 10. Disraeli, Blake...
NONFICTION 1. The Death of a President, Manchester (2) 2. The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell (1) 3. Everything But Money, Levenson (3) 4. Madame Sarah, Skinner (4) 5. Edgar Cayce: The Sleeping Prophet, Stearn (5) 6. Games People Play, Berne (6) 7. Disraeli, Blake (7) 8. Paper Lion, Plimpton (8) 9. Inside South America, Gunther (9) 10. Treblinka, Steiner...
DISRAELI, by Robert Blake. The wiles and wit of Britain's most prodigal Victorian Prime Minister, whose life as recounted in this excellent biography proves even richer than the many versions of its myth...