Word: blakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Office TNT Scriptwriter Stanley Shapiro and Director Blake Edwards (This Happy Feeling), two of the most promising young masters of movie comedy, have applied the formula with such style that the studio has been able to guarantee the customers exactly 287 (count 'em) laughs without fear of refund. And while the public rolls in the aisles, the professionals should take careful notice. Furlough is a definitive encyclopedia of comic cliche...
...beauty of Blake Edwards' direction is that it restores to these familiar jokes something of their first fine fervor and surprise. The man obviously loves his material, and he has fired the players with something of his own excitement. Even bored old Keenan Wynn is back at his best. Cast as a great big horrible actors' agent. Actor Wynn slinks about the screen looking like an absurdly prosperous tapir in dark glasses. But when a terrified female pressagent informs him that his big star is pregnant, Wynn reduces his face to a heap of malevolent hamburger, and produces...
...married, and a Lord and his wife whose wall Jimson must have to paint his great panorama of the rising of Lazarus. He finally gets dead drunk in their living room, imports a number of oriental types whose feet he wants to paint, and, quoting lines from the omnipresent Blake, sets to work...
...JAMES M. BLAKE Springfield, Mass...
...promise more than any one poem entirely achieves, always seeming on the verge of breaking through his obscurities into the clear radiance of revelation, he still achieves more than most moderns can even hint at. His best lines have the directness of that other master of obscure simplicities, William Blake. Of hope: "My gates are all caves." Of love: "The pure admire the pure, and live alone; I love a woman with an empty face." Of the clear judgments of childhood...