Word: cecile
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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TWENTY years ago, when Cecil B. DeMille realized he could film the destruction of a Philistine temple better than anybody else, he cast about for a story that would lead up to so magnificent a climax. Sampson and Delilah, the result of his search, has found its way back to Boston and, although the first 107 minutes pale beside the last ten, it's well worth seeing...
...said a narrator. 'The old we tolerate." So much for narration. The rest of the story belonged to the eloquent black-and-white cinematography, the first ever attempted by Snowdon. Among the telling vignettes: desolate faces and palsied hands fighting dinner hour in an old folks' home; Cecil Beaton, 64, describing his "first signs , of , loneliness" and his denture problems; a' Septuagenarian marriage ceremony in which the bride momentarily forgot the name of the groom; a daughter guiltily registering her arthritic father in a home. A visit to Continental spas showed elderly people desperately trying" to reverse...
Hollywood is beyond parody. Almost anything said or written about it, no matter how absurd, somehow, somewhere, some time comes close to the truth. Author Richard Condon, who spent 22 years as a pressagent for Producers Cecil B. DeMille, Sam Goldwyn, Darryl Zanuck, et a!., has tried to defy that basic Hollywood tenet by inventing a story so preposterous that it cannot possibly seem real. He has only partly succeeded...
...nominations had nothing to do with quality. Dr. Dolittle, despite its collection of pans, is in the running for the Oscar as the year's best picture; so is the bloated comedy of miscegenation, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. Sentiment presumably dictated the unexpected candidacy of Cecil Kellaway for best supporting actor in Dinner, a movie in which that kindly old character actor once again played a kindly old character. Spencer Tracy, also in Dinner, was nominated posthumously for best actor as a farewell gesture; he died less than three weeks after the film was finished...
Leahy said that he had met with the committee--composed of Cecil E. Goode of the Bureau of the Budget, Robert Boyden of the National Science Foundation, and Susumu Uyeda of the Government Accounting Office in Washington last week...