Word: cinemas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When she meets the hated Gaseler, the Nazi who was responsible for her husband's death at Kalinovka, Nella has a moment of wild hope that reality has at last broken through the interminable bad movie of life. But the film grinds on, the director calls for the cinema dramatics of the great confrontation scene, and Nella can find neither hatred nor pity in her heart -only boredom with this ridiculous villain. But Grandma, who does not realize she is merely a character actress, demands vengeance. Uncle Albert, as exhausted by heroics as Nella, seeks out Gaseler and knocks...
Born. To Donald O'Connor, 32, cinema song-and-dance man (Call Me Madam), and sometime TV Starlet Gloria Noble O'Connor, 24: a daughter, their first child (his second); in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Alicia. Weight...
...hero): to reach those who will not come to church and present Christianity to them in simple, vivid terms. Says Father Oswald: "You see, the spoken word is not good enough nowadays. There is no good giving them beautiful words and lovely thoughts; the people are used to the cinema and TV. We must give them something they...
Passed over for promotion to brigadier general in the Air Force Reserve because stern-minded Senator Margaret Chase Smith said he had not spent enough time actively being a colonel (TIME, Sept. 2), shambling Cinema Good Guy Jimmy Stewart last week got a star anyway, and with it a title requiring no active duty at all: honorary sheriff of Elko County, Nev. (14,000 people, twelve crap joints...
...slash-'em-ups proving by good grosses that there is plenty of room at the bottom (said one flabbergasted distributor: "I don't get it; I can't even stand to look at the stills"), the next step in low, lowbrow cinema was a marriage of the undead with the underdone: I Was a Teenage Werewolf (Herman Cohen; American-International). Plot synopsis: a mad psychiatrist turns a sensitive adolescent into a hairy, ravening beast. Says 30-year-old Producer Cohen: "I heard that 62% of the movie audience was between 15 and 30, and I knew that...