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...theme of The Star which lacks luster, for similar stories of a fading actress were presented sharply and adroitly in All About Eve and Sunset Boulevard. Nor is Bette Davis disappointing: she shrieks, she bellows, she rolls her prodigious eyes. But this time the script is as aged as its heroine, and The Star, with a lack of biting satire, can only gum its way through a dim Hollywood adventure...
...gale whipped the trees along Tel Aviv's Rothschild Boulevard and tore at the policeman on guard before the Soviet legation to Israel. While he patrolled the front, someone neatly clipped a hole in a wire fence at the rear, crept through and placed a bomb-six pounds of high explosives in a thin metal container-against a wall of the somber grey stone legation. The bomb went off with a crash that shook Tel Aviv and sent diplomatic shock tremors across the world...
...even as primitive satire, the story is more tolerable than the usual musicomedy romance. There are some amusing burlesque ditties-Who Is the Bravest? and Every Street's a Boulevard in Old New York. There are glittering Miles White costumes and gay Harry Horner sets. As Hazel, Helen Gallagher is an attractive, versatile and spirited malade imaginaire. And, with New York for a locale and a tour of it as part of the plot, Hazel Flagg at times achieves the welcome variety and topicality of a revue...
When the French Poet Gérard de Nerval was asked why he walked a lobster on a leash down a Paris boulevard one day in the 1840s, he replied: "He knows the secrets of the sea." Until very modern times, most of the sea's secrets have been known only to the sea's inhabitants, and they never tell. In the last two decades, however, a new species has joined the finny tribe: the men-fish, who, with flippers on their feet and an air tank on their backs, go down into the waters and come back to tell what...
...morning last October a mild-mannered, grey-haired little woman walked into the California Bank on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles, quietly approached a teller's window, and laid a note on the counter. This done, she raised a paper bag in which she seemed to be holding a pistol, and waited patiently. The teller read the message: "This gun will talk and don't think I can't use it," and handed over $1,212 in currency...