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...technicians of the Loeb's Major Barbara, at least those who feel conscientious enough, should see the Charles Playhouse's current production of that play. They should see it not only for theatrical instruction but also for personal satisfaction, because they, college students and mere amateurs, could never botch GBS with the professional completeness of the Charles...
...raise money, Giulio persuades his father to sell the farm where the old man had hoped to die, moves him and his chickens to languish in the city in a cramped spare room. Still short of capital, he makes a hilarious botch of peddling himself as playmate for a prune-faced contessa. Finally, he tries to retain the stance of a jealous husband while sending his wife off to beg a loan from an old admirer...
...Martial de Villemandy, 35, bounced around Europe and America with his vaudeville parents before they separated. Previously imprisoned as an army deserter, he helped botch the assassination attempt by crashing the car that was to signal the arrival of the presidential convoy...
Anyone who believes this will cherish the rest of this movie. Since Kid Galahad is Elvis Presley, he has trouble lifting his eyelids, let alone eight-ounce gloves. Except for Joan Blackman's sweater, there is precious little to open anyone's eyes in this re-botch of the 1937 movie about the seamy side of the fight game. Between bouts, Presley Elviscerates a few helpless songs, moos over Joan, and twists like Little Egypt. Gig Young as a blarneying promoter and Lola Albright as his "fiancée" try to beat some brains into the picture...
...professional Reds have the organizational techniques, the indoctrination textbooks, and a more patient spirit (Roca wanted Castro to lay off the Catholic Church longer, and not to alienate prematurely the technicians needed for the first round of the takeover). Communists are more practical planners, even if they manage to botch up agriculture wherever they are. Mother Russia now controls Cuba's imports, and its purse strings, too. In the beginning, the Kremlin may have wanted only to use Castro without being stuck with him. But now it has a $750 million investment in Cuba, and as Castro fervently wraps...