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...offer. Buckley's conservatism seems more a hobby than a conviction. His description of Lindsay as "pompous" serves only to highlight his own incontrovertible pomposity--a quality somehow jarring in a Goldwaterite. And one winds up wondering if Buckley is in fact a conservative at all, or merely a circus impressario who missed his calling...
Kafkaesque Fate. Ruby's murder trial, like his life, was a sordid circus. His principal attorney, flashy Melvin Belli, tried to convince the jury that Ruby was insane. But Belli's florid oratory and arrogant yelpings at the all-too-obvious ineptitude of Judge Joe B. Brown were not enough. The verdict was guilty; the sentence, death in the electric chair. The conviction was appealed by some of the 18 lawyers that Ruby had in the three years following his crime, and last October the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals overthrew the finding on the grounds that Judge...
...Back in the '30's, Howard Hawks made a fishing picture called Tiger Shark which, for a "B" picture, was a box-office hit. Legend has it hthat soon afterwards, the head of Warner Brothers' "B" picture unit went to his writers saying, "Write me Tiger Shark with a circus setting" or "Do Tiger Shark with airplanes." Hollywood knew that character and plot was the necessary evil that turned the uncommercial documentary into fairytale fiction and potential box-office gold. They also knew that a popular plot could be used again and again, as long as the costumes...
...GARRY MOORE SHOW (CBS, 9-10 p.m.). Clown King Emmett Kelly, the comic bareback-riding George Hanneford Family and those high-wire daredevils, the Flying Wallendas and the Flying Palacios, get together for the "World's Greatest Circus Stars...
...started this fall by New York University with a $750,000 Rockefeller Foundation grant. Taking his cue from European drama conservatories, Director Theodore Hoffman refuses to let his 222 students act until they have been through a year of drilling in the fundamentals of the theater-voice, mime, satire, circus stunts. Only then are they permitted to perfect their art by performing 15 hours a week (v. three to six at most schools). "Perform or perish," says Hoffman...