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...other serious disease, and there is one case that he has studied closely and anxiously for six years-that of his own 19-year-old son. With Dr. Walter R. Nickel he has been collecting specimens of knobby tissue for microscopic study by offering surfers $15 for a blob...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trauma: The Knee & the Board | 5/7/1965 | See Source »

This doggedly purposeful drama qualifies handily as the grimmest movie of the year; yet the best of it burns into the mind. As the pawnbroker, Rod Steiger performs with tightly measured virtuosity. He is colorless, an inconspicuous blob hidden behind steel-rimmed glasses and a steel-wool mustache. To blot out a world full of past and present horrors, Sol listlessly endures an affair with his best friend's widow. He spurns the friendship of a sympathetic social worker (Geraldine Fitzgerald), slowly begins to soften toward his troubled young Puerto Rican assistant (Jaime Sanchez), then crushes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Jew in Harlem | 4/23/1965 | See Source »

...Talk About Women is a comedy about nine Italian men. All of them are played by Vittorio Gassman (The Easy Life), an actor of great charm and almost inexhaustible versatility, who seems determined to prove that the legendary Latin lover is really just a big blob of mozzarella. In his fall collection of heavy breathers, the evidence sure is persuasive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Roamin' Holiday | 10/16/1964 | See Source »

Sopping but unstoppable, Clouseau suspiciously sniffs at a jar of cold cream, moves away with a big white blob on the end of his nose. He reflectively sucks on a ballpoint pen, resumes the interrogation with a bright blue tongue. He nervously lights the cigarette of a seductive suspect (Elke Sommer), forgets to extinguish the lighter before he puts it back in his pocket. "Eeeeeeeeek," Elke squeals a moment later. "You're on fire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Sellers of the Surete | 7/10/1964 | See Source »

Enter Paul Newman, a no-account artist who builds his bank balance up to seven figures by inventing a masterpiece machine. One day the machine turns on its master and beats him into an abstract blob. Husband No. 3 is Robert Mitchum. Already wealthy, he liquidates his assets and goes native down on the farm, only to meet disaster trying to milk a bull. Next comes Gene Kelly ("Our life was like a gay 1930s musical") who hoofs his way to fame, fortune and a grim finale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: MacLaine Goes for Broke | 5/22/1964 | See Source »

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