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...sisters shun the seamy side of Hollywood with Victorian primness. They are less interested in Charlton Heston's love life than in how he kept fit for all those chariot rides in Ben-Hur. "This means a lot to the reader," Reba says...
...Pigeon That Took Rome lays a heap of small eggs that scramble surprisingly well. Coo-coo comedy is intended, and Pigeon gets off to a flying start as two G.I.s (Charlton Heston and Harry Guardino) sneak into Nazi-controlled Rome disguised as priests. Their mission: to spy on the Germans and send their reports out by carrier pigeon. Unfortunately, the priests meet a couple of broads (Elsa Martinelli and Gabriella Pallotta), and the pigeons meet with fowl play-they end up in a pot. Next day a sneaky schoolboy steals a fresh flock of pigeons from Gestapo headquarters...
...acting is easily the best Charlton Heston has done since he graduated out of circus pictures and into the nether spheres of legend and religion. There is perceptible growth to go along with the increasing use of grey Tintone: and the final scene of the film, in which the dead Cid is propped in his saddle to lead his troops into battle, comes as near as one can expect to the power of real myth. As the lovely Chimene, Sophia Loren is overwhelmingly lovely. Much of the drama of her story has been cut out; unlike the Corneille heroine...
...boat will be the same as the Varsity last week, with one change, Charlton Ames, in at three...
...This Very Moment (ABC, 9-10 p.m.). Special, with Burt Lancaster, Lyndon Johnson, Harry Belafonte, Bobby Darin, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Jimmy Durante, Connie Francis, Greer Garson, Charlton Heston, Rock Hudson, Bob Hope, Lena Home, the Kingston Trio, Eleanor Roosevelt, Paul Newman, Jack Paar, Jane Powell, Edward G. Robinson, Dinah Shore, Danny Thomas and Joanne Woodward, benefiting the American Cancer Society...