Word: cold
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only TV drama that came to life did so in a cemetery. It was Truman Capote again who, coincidental with the national release of the film version of Cold Blood, adapted his short story Among the Paths to Eden into a bizarre yet oddly touching glimpse into the life of the lonely. Filmed entirely in a New York City cemetery, the play starred Maureen Stapleton as an old maid who spends an afternoon roaming the burial grounds on the theory that, acre for acre, it is a better place than most to meet a widowed man-and a possible suitor...
...between them. Left End David ("Deacon") Jones, 29, stands 6 ft. 5 in., weighs 260 Ibs., and runs the 100 in 10 sec. flat. The Rams' right end, Lamar Lundy, 32 (6 ft. 7 in., 260 Ibs.), appears briefly in the movie version of In Cold Blood as a motorist who offers a lift to two hitchhiking murderers: they take one look at him and turn down the ride. Right Tackle Roger Brown, 30, operates on the theory that "the opposing team hates me and is trying to cut off my career, so I'm going to hurt...
...called The Two Character Play, and it has only two players-a brother and sister named Felice and Clare. He is the manager and leading man and she the leading lady of a dramatic troupe playing an engagement in a fortress-like theater in a grimly foreign, extremely cold town. The pair have just been deserted by the rest of the company with a farewell telegram charging that they are insane. Since the "audience" is already filing into the theater, Felice and Clare have no choice but to put on an item in their repertory called "The Two Character Play...
Truman Capote called it a "nonfiction novel," a dubious tag designed to draw attention to the undeniable fact that he had used the novelist's craft to render reality. Through painstaking accretion of minutiae, In Cold Blood harrowingly anatomized a multiple murder and in the process brought literary life to six dead people. They were the four members of the prosperous Clutter family of Holcomb, Kans., and their killers. Perry Smith and Dick Hickock, who were executed in 1965. Although the book was flawed by a seeming excess of sympathy for the criminals, it had the sweeping force...
...conscious filmishness. The black-and-white photography by Conrad Hall may be the best of the year, but Brooks tricks it up with flashy dissolves-a bus becomes a moving train, a prostitute metamorphizes into Perry's mother-that give the film a slick and slippery surface. In Cold Blood, moreover, unnecessarily belabors the arguments against capital punishment by introducing a sob-brother journalist who wearyingly articulates the message...