Word: carolers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fortunes of those who had figured in this account are nearly closed. The little that remains to their historian to relate is told in few and simple words. It is well that Director Carol Reed (The Third Man) has strayed from the far less successful Broadway version, which was stunted by stage boundaries and hampered by overplayers. Instead he has gone to a richer predecessor: David Lean's virtuous 1948 adaptation, memorable for its palpable atmosphere of terror and decorum. After a season of watching inane twitching in the name of dance, the viewer is most happily greeted...
...women. As Rosemary, Carol Simon has all the right ideas, looks the part, and cries out only for a little more poise. As Hedy, Beverly Fanger has somewhat too much poise and wants only a little restraint. A lesson to both of them, and to would be comediennes the world over, is Shannon Thompson, miscast but happily so as Smitty...
Monday, November 18 THE CAROL BURNETT SHOW (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Guests: Songstress Ella Fitzgerald and Comedian Sid Caesar...
EXPENSIVE PEOPLE by Joyce Carol Oates. 308 pages. Vanguard...
...cries in the night, cobwebs on the tower stairs-all the exquisitely accumulated gothic horrors-these are the forte of frail, large-eyed women novelists. Joyce Carol Oates, a brilliant writer, offers an updated variation on the genre by taking the American Dream and turning it into a kind of American nightmare...