Word: brawls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...into a town called Valerno, the Italian commander bellows: "Do you surrender?" The U.S. captain snarls: "Hell, no. Do you surrender?" The Italian answers amiably: "Of course." Director Blake Edwards, having attained the humoristic high point of his picture, should have surrendered too. Instead, he stages the usual Bacchic brawl that looks like the crowd scene from the Palermo production of La Bohème. After the Germans recapture the village, he contrives to involve the captain, giggling and wriggling under ribbons and rouge, in some transvestite titillations that are altogether too sweaty for comfort. And in the last reel...
...editor," Charles de Gaulle instructed an aide, "and suggest that he ought to be very severe in tomorrow's editorial." Was De Gaulle demanding yet another Paris-Presse blast against U.S. foreign policy? Not that day. Having just watched the televised national rugby finals degenerate into a brawl, France's President yearned to convey his outrage to the country. He appealed to L'Équipe, the Paris-based sports daily-and got his editorial...
...HOSTAGE (Columbia). Whether through providential design or evolutionary quirk, an Irishman's tongue is the nimblest portion of his anatomy. The late Brendan Behan's tongue was rough, racy, tender and tart. His play, if it can be called that, is a cross between a magnificent barroom brawl and every vaudeville turn in the book of yesterday. Julie Harris and an intoxicatingly zestful company offer this bawdy, irreverent toast to the world...
...these shoved his fist into the face of a Harvard marcher. But Boston police prevented a brawl from breaking out. A little while later an empty beer can was thrown from a roof; it landed near the marchers...
Died. Victor Brauner, 62, French surrealist painter, a Rumanian occultist's son who painted a portrait of himself with a damaged eye in 1932, lost an eye for real in a brawl six years later, thereafter turned out scores of intense, unnerving works filled with misshapen human figures characterized by outsized, haunting eyes; of cancer; in Paris...