Word: briens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from the graveside of the heroine (Ava Gardner), the story has a few startlingly good lines and situations-and several embarrassingly bad ones. Ava is a slum-bred flamenco dancer in Madrid when a tyrannical millionaire turned moviemaker (Warren Stevens) shows up with his slavish pressagent (Edmond O'Brien) to look and maybe to buy. But Ava, no easy mark, will have none of it until the millionaire's cynical, broken-down director (Humphrey...
Despite a late start last season, the triumvirate sponsored two plays: T.S. Eliot's Confidential Clerk, Liam O'Brien's The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker. Neither lost money; Clerk stirred up a critics' controversy. This year Producer Whitehead will present Clifford (Golden Boy) Odets' new The Flowering Peach, plus a pair of plays still in the works. With three Broadway theaters leased, Stevens & Co. will have a sure home for Saint Joan when it gets to Manhattan in April, will have no trouble booking its riskier productions. More important, if Joan's tour (weekly cost...
Shield for Murder (Schenck-Koch; United Artists), as a moviegoer who pays close attention can probably tell, is not just a second run through Private Hell 36. The plots are almost identical, but there is one important difference. Edmund O'Brien, as the cop, goes sour for so little money ($25,000) that the audience can hardly believe it until somebody explains that he is "probably psycho." The climax comes in a chase through a swimming pool and into the girls' locker room, with the air full of hard bullets and soft flesh-a scene that may make...
...next decade, O'Brien predicted, the electrical industry will sell as much equipment as it has in its entire 75-year history. And the average family's investment in electric appliances, now $1,300, will soar...
...eminent solon" for Senator. When Whitehead is thinking deeply, as he does one day at a baseball game, he writes of the fans: "Most of them. I suppose, have mediocre jobs and live in drab houses and have little learning and no appreciation of art." When Senator O'Brien (an "imaginary" character who is responsible for a vicious climate called O'Brienism) goes after Whitehead on trumped-up charges of being a Soviet agent, a lot of recent imaginary history is tediously rewritten. Badgered by O'Brien, his job lost. Whitehead takes off for a Connecticut farm...