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...Author James Baldwin's own father was a Harlem clergyman, and the church scenes in go Tell It are as compelling as anything that has turned up in a U.S. novel this year. Watch Preacher Elisha: "At one moment, head thrown back, eyes closed, sweat standing on his brow, he sat at the piano, singing and playing; and then, like a great black cat in trouble in the jungle, he stiffened and trembled, and cried out. Jesus, Jesus, oh Lord Jesus! He struck on the piano one last, wild note and threw up his hands, palms upward, stretched wide...
...written on his brow...
...Marx, and in a dark, musty cellar pledged his life and liberty to the Bolshevik party. He was 16 and "sentimental"- a "slight, fragile youth," as one of the comrades described him, "with wild hair and a small, pale face lighted with brilliant, myopic eyes burning under a bulging brow...
Robert's brow is the first to take a fever dew for this belle dame sans merci, and soon the two are sighing full sore. John begins to thirst after the lady, too, but being a practical fellow, quenches himself at her serving maid. Guy comes along a little later and makes such a pretty leg that the fickle fair forgets all about Robert, who takes, in his turn, to the consolations of religion. Soon, though, it's dash away all to the Holy Land, and the drums of war drown out the viole d'amour...
...Best Actor division there is a real dilemma. No one can complain if either Marlon Brando (Viva Zapata), or Gary Cooper (High Noon), wins. But if the Academy falls back on Jose Farrier because he is famous, influential, and a high-brow actor, it will be chopping up the last remnant of its already tattered prestige...