Word: cinema
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Please explain those hunks of femininity bundled in white sheets shown in the picture, "Dinner at the Roman Room," in your [Nov. 30] Cinema section. What are they? Odalisques caught off guard by the photographer? Do they think the public is going to spend money to see them in B pictures if they are going to spend our substance on $6.50 meals (and up) and if they are going to live on the fat of "suckling pig dressed with lemon in mouth, maraschino cherries in eyes," etc ... By the way, Robert Cummings looks more like B. Lillie . . . ED E. HERBST...
...supplement quite naturally includes a discussion of existentialism; under égalité (equality), it notes that the "preamble of the [French] Constitution of 1946 completes this principle . . ." There are brief biographies of Lillian Gish (revived with Duel in the Sun") and Charles Chaplin, "the most authentic genius of the cinema." Picasso has swelled to 77 lines; Malenkov and Beria have arrived; Korea has grown from two-thirds of a column to two-thirds of a page. Eisenhower, Truman and Churchill are all hommes d'état, but General de Gaulle has been demoted to a mere homme politique...
...Navajo) Bartlett on a shoestring ($145,000), the film tells the life story of Wisconsin's All-America Elroy ("Crazylegs") Hirsch and is chiefly remarkable for the fact that Footballer Hirsch plays himself on the screen. Since he looks like a dark-haired Kirk Douglas and meets every cinema crisis with the wooden impassivity of Alan Ladd, Hirsch easily passes most of Hollywood's requirements for a leading...
When Tight Little Island set audiences chuckling here and abroad, British film producer sealized that the antics of provincial communities were an untapped reservoir of humor. The latest in the stream of hinterland hilarity, Titfield Thunderbolt, should send the cinema men back into the drawing room. For although the film has a relatively well-known cast and Technicolor scenery resembling British Railways posters, it has very few funny lines and its slapstick is unimaginative...
Twentieth Century-Fox President Spyros P. Skouras, there to boost Cinema-Scope, flashed a gloomy picture on the screen. Said he: "Over 6.000 theaters have been closed since 1946. Don't be misled. What happened to those people can happen to you . . . Television is the greatest enemy the industry ever...