Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sir: Roy Lichtenstein's cover drawing of Robert Kennedy, the New York Senator from Massachusetts, was superb. It provided an at-a-glance character analysis: colorful, comic, callow and caustic.
The jewels, incidentally, were genuine: about $2,000,000 worth used in the course of the picture-most of them came from Bulgari in Rome. Genuine, too, was the Goforth villa, built for the occasion in Sardinia and fitted out with a real monkey, a real myna bird and real...
The top half of the bill might well be Wild in the Streets. The thesis of the movie is that the U.S. is ripe for a teen-age entertainer-turned-politico, a theme explored recently in the English film Privilege. The central character is a delinquent (Christopher Jones) who caterwauls...
Barthelme uses a somewhat blunter instrument in Robert Kennedy Saved from Drowning, a character study of the politician composed of paragraphs and fragments of popular journalism. Press cliches and pseudo quotes from the candidate are alternated until Kennedy himself seems little more than a collage of newsprint. The story is...
LESS flashy than Aspic, Donald Siegel's Madigan is a quiet tour de force. Describing his own style as "classical," Siegel (director of Invasion of the Body Snatchers and The Killers) subordinates camera pyrotechnics to dramatic purpose, his close-ups often revealing an obvious love for the excellent performances of...