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...Claudet Houle, Panagopoulos' campaign chair,said that Cox "is probably laughing at us," sincePanagopoulos is only 20 years old and without muchexperience...
Immediately, someone asks why the film features so much blood (for El Topo does for bloodbaths what Claudet Colbert did for milk)., Jodorowsky, who's' anticipated the attack, has practised his defense: "I will kill any animal you eat in all my pictures. I do not kill dog or cat. I can kill chicken. I cannot have 10,000 rabbits stampede they tell me, so I say I want 300 rabbits dead. How many cows do you kill a day? 80,000 a day? One million? Finish with the hamburgers and I will finish to kill animals. It is essential...
Hollywood has often used illegitimacy as a theme-generally for deep, racking sobs (The Sin of Madelon Claudet, To Each His Own), less frequently for somewhat embarrassed guffaws (The. Miracle of Morgan's Creek). Surprisingly, the French have contrived, in this tender, low-keyed picture, to use illegitimacy for a few pleasant, amoral chuckles...
...Edgar Selwyn, 68, cinema and stage producer; of cerebral hemorrhage; in Hollywood. Long on Broadway, he started as a film producer in 1912, put the "wyn" in Goldwyn when he merged with Samuel Goldfish in 1916. Director of Helen Hayes's Oscar-winning movie (The Sin of Madelon Claudet (1931), Selwyn's best-known Broadway productions were Why Marry (1917-first Pulitzer Prize play), Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1926), The Wookey...
...rare as the redskin, the noble prostitute was once a cinema favorite. Carrie Snyder, as impersonated with enormous gusto and skill by Actress Gladys George, famed for her Broadway success in Personal Appearance, rates with the noblest of them all. If intelligence counts, Carrie is better than Madelon Claudet, who sank to scrubbing floors; she certainly deserves the nod over Madame X, who forfeited her own flesh and blood. The rating of Valiant is the Word for Carrie against other noble-prostitute pictures is equally favorable. Adapted from Barry Benefield's novel, astutely directed by Wesley Ruggles...