Word: cold
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...COLD BLOOD. Richard Brooks has followed Truman Capote's harrowing anatomization of a multiple murder in Kansas with remarkable fidelity, and the performances of the unknown actors who portray the killers (Scott Wilson as Dick Hickock, Robert Blake as Perry Smith) lift the film to near brilliance...
With all sorts of plot twists borrowed from Dr. Strangelove and the Bond movies, Brain is the sort of film that more or less writes itself. By the time that Oscar Homolka, as the genial head of Russia's secret service, stops Midwinter's army cold, viewers may decide that the whole thing is mechanical enough to have been turned out by a computer-and one that is worth a lot less than a billion dollars...
Visconti has tackled his responsibility with the same fanatical concern for factual accuracy that Richard Brooks demonstrated in making In Cold Blood (TIME, Dec. 22). He had authorities in Algiers rip up a street to lay down trolley tracks that had been there during the period of the story (1938-39), and even ordered a reprinting of cigarette packages to match those sold at the time. Visconti's film of The Stranger follows the action of the novel with hardly a comma missing-and therein lies both its strength and its weakness...
Haider today is a combination of grit and polish. He hates cold weather from his tours in Canada, speaks acceptable Spanish from his connections with Latin America. He enjoys opera, frequently attends performances in New York with U.S. Steel Chairman Roger Blough, another buff. On business trips, he likes to get up a Cajun card game known as Bouree, a variety of pitch in which pots get increasingly more costly. He seldom loses at Bouree, but he can afford it if he does. For running its global empire, Jersey Standard last year paid him $395,833 in salary and bonuses...
...Europeans find Americans efficiently cold, Americans for their part often find Europeans dismayingly disorganized. Says ITT Executive Vice President Tim Dunleavy: "To counteract the long, lean, hungry guys coming in, a European company tries to merge with another European company. But that only adds to the difficulty. You get two overstaffed, overweight companies getting together, and you're making the problem twice as serious as it was in the first place. That sort of action makes them more prey than ever to American companies, but a lot of businessmen and politicians still don't recognize this...