Word: boye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like its Broadway predecessor, the new movie called Tea and Sympathy concerns a prep school housemaster and his wife and a student whose name is Tom Lee. Both tell of the suffering felt especially by these three when the boy is accused homosexuality. But the resemblance doesn't go too far. The people who adapted the play to the screen--including Robert Anderson, the playwright and now the script writer--have succeeded in making the prejudices which victimized the boy appear ridiculous. The result of their diligence is a movie that is limited by this intention. The film is uncomfortable...
Outside World. Onstage or off, Hackett has the wide-eyed responses of a small boy. When he picks up a phone, pudgy fingers aflutter, he stretches an inquiring eye, screws up his brow, puckers the right corner of his rubbery mouth and startles the operator with Broadwayese: "Connect me to de outside woirld!" Or again, he leaps from a chair and plunges into a routine as ad-libbed as most of his acts. "They used to say whenever someone turned on a light, I started performing...
...picture, for which the three Broadway leads have been retained, follows the play almost scene for scene. Tom Lee (John Kerr), the 17-year-old son of divorced parents, is a student at a New England prep school. On a campus where every red-blooded boy is expected to go out for one team or another, Tom is regarded by his schoolmates as an "off-horse." He doesn't like football or baseball. He is quiet and gentle, reads poetry, listens to classical music. One day two schoolmates see him sitting on the beach with several faculty wives, sewing...
...film do not deserve the plaudits they won on the stage. Leif Erikson plays the husband as such a dumb galoot that it is impossible to believe that a sensitive girl like Deborah would ever have married him. John Kerr puts remarkably little imagination into the part of the boy; it .often reads much better than he plays. it. Deborah Kerr, on the other hand, is excellent: always in scale, always in key. And Norma Crane does some wonderful flobbing around the screen as the slavey and general grab bag at the local hash house. 1984. (Holiday; Columbia). Things...
...steaming air into a street of villas, catch your bus and ride home through vast areas of drab brick, lightened by an occasional pub in which you see a few sodden wretches mournfully ruminant over a glass of bitter beer-if you have gone through this, then, my boy . . . your guts will ache with passion for the Happy Land, the glorious country with the bright Sunday evening wink of the Chop Suey signs, the roar of the elevated, the sounds of the radio . . . and the peaceful noise of millions of Jews in the Bronx slowly turning the 237 pages...