Word: briens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Born. To Nina ("Honey Bear") Warren Brien, 24, youngest daughter of the Chief Justice, and Dr. Stuart Brien, 35, Beverly Hills obstetrician: a son, their first child; in Los Angeles. Name: William Warren. Weight...
...addition to a draggy book, there are tunes that can only turn rather untuneful to avoid seeming reminiscent, and lyrics that are ruggedly mediocre. Stephen Douglass and Lois O'Brien look nice as the lovers; Barbara Perry tries to help as Rumple's girl-or girl Friday; and Gretchen Wyler, with sass and sex enough for most roles, seems wasted as a girl with psychiatric problems that conceivably grew out of the show...
EILEEN O'BRIEN New York City...
...city editor of the Chronicle, Shrike, slips through West's pages sticking the men about him on thorns; he is a complete sadist, whose quiet, corrosive words prick at Miss Lonelyhearts constantly. Pat O'Brien, tested veteran of countless barrel-bottom films, shouts. Playwright Howard Teichmann has promoted the novel's Shrike, with name changed to Spain, to rank with Miss Lonelyhearts himself, boring more holes in the plot's tight belt, as if to accommodate O'Brien's bulk...
...young column writer whose search for meaning amid his readers' hopeless letters wears his life away, Fritz Weaver cannot hope to out-decibel bellow-mumble-grunt O'Brien; and his adapted lines haven't the edge to slice through to the audience; but this may not be all O'Brien's fault, for Weaver drowns in turbulent philosophical soliloquies which West raced over...