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Love with the Proper Stranger. This romantic comedy-drama succeeds in spite of itself, for it is brimful of enough warmth and hip humor to mask a decidedly rancid plot. The girl Angie (Natalie Wood) is a clerk at Macy's. The boy Rocky (Steve McQueen) is a part...
Real objects and real people are enigmas to Billy. He loathes his job at Shadrack and Duxbury, an undertaking firm. He yearns to go off to London and become a scriptwriter before Mr. Shad-rack closes in on him about the postage money he has pilfered. Girls are a problem...
But for all that, Chukhrai offers noteworthy compensations. His film is brimful of humanity and humor. His actors are superb, particularly Drobysheva. Meeting her hero for the first time on a snowy street corner, she turns a blind date into a glorious little ballet of girlish uncertainty. Women at a...
Graham is brimful of plans for new crusades. He has vowed to devote his attention to the U.S. at least until 1966, has already made arrangements for crusades in Ohio, Nebraska and Texas next year. Much of his evangelizing between the formal crusades will be done on university campuses, including...
Fowles got the idea for his plot from a true incident in 1957 when a young Englishman kidnaped a girl and kept her prisoner for 105 days before she was rescued. This kind of perversion is not generally the stuff of high tragedy, but Fowles has made it so. Clegg...