Word: boys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...love to have a little boy," says Trumpeter Miles Davis, "with red hair, green eyes and a black face-who plays piano like Ahmad Jamal." Trumpeter Davis is one of the more fervent admirers of the pianist whose group is currently the hottest trio in jazz. Its leader is neither red-haired nor green-eyed-but the spell he casts on his faithful followers, including many a fellow jazzman, sometimes suggests the arrival of the first Martian from outer space...
...year-old Yamanaka comes by his swimming talent naturally: his mother was a professional diver for shellfish. Yamanaka, raised in Amamachi, on the Sea of Japan, was a swimmer at four. But as a boy, Yamanaka shuddered at the thought of racing: "It seemed too tiring at the time." Then one day he tagged along to watch his high school team in a national meet, sat fuming as the contestants splashed haplessly up and down the pool. Finally, Yamanaka stalked down out of the stands, entered the 100 meters-and won. "After watching the slow swimming," says he, "I felt...
...adolescence and the awful homemade isolation of children from their parents. He is fortunate to have as the children plaintive, pony-tailed Carol Lynley, 17. and blond, handsome 17-year-old Brandon de Wilde, who has acquired longer legs and a deeper voice since he played the small boy in Shane. Both are quietly affecting in the difficult acting chore of seeming ineffectual...
...riddled with tasteless jokes and cliches that would embarrass Helen Trent. It is also awkwardly resolved: the play ended with the girl surviving the abortion-and only then did the walls of noncommunication tumble -but the movie tacks on a climactic chase in the night, in which the boy's father snatches the girl from danger, then gives his son enough money to go off and get married somewhere, presumably anywhere, so long as it's away from home. This dubious happy ending suggests an even more dubious moral: Go as far as you like, kids, but admit...
...Maybe it was my fault. It ain't easy to raise a boy without a mother," sorrowfully explains the beef baron (Anthony Quinn), whose tosspot son (Earl Holliman). a sort of Leo Gorcey in chaps, has raped and murdered, just for pure meanness, the beautiful Indian "squaw missy" wife of the marshal (Kirk Douglas). The job of avenging his squaw's death is made much more complicated by the fact that Widower Douglas, "a poor fool with high-flown ideas," is also the best friend of Widower Quinn...