Word: colorlessness
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While director George Birnbaum keeps the production moving, he seems not to have realized that sheer pace is no substitute for electricity. The scenes seem hurriedly blocked rather than directed. We get little feeling of the baseball world (a situation not helped by the colorless sets and costumes) and the wild-eyed people who populate it. Without this essential atmosphere, the production loses the nutty chaos that should make it tick. Birnbaum's own brand of ingenuity seems to lie with the quick double-entendre gag-vulgarity that goes against the grain of this particular musical. Just about everything...
...Righter does not often leave his spacious, high-columned Hollywood house near Grauman's Chinese Theater. Though his 6-ft. frame is trim, he has the colorless, puffy look of one who does not often go into the sun. Less frequent are the big splurgy parties, complete with animal when appropriate, with which he used to greet the beginning of a new zodiacal sign. For the most part, he stays home, attended by a butler ("Mr. Libra") and a cook ("Miss Virgo"), and works with four secretaries and a mathematician. "I don't like to go out," he says, "because...
...toppled slowly and fell like ninepins, full length on the pavement, like big cardboard boxes being dropped. . . . The acute angle of the horizon, squeezed between the houses, hurtled toward him. Beneath his feet it was night. A night of black cotton wool, shapeless and inorganic, while the sky was colorless, a ceiling, one more acute angle...
...clean white face colorless and faded...
...latest of Publisher Bernard Geis' calculated jousts with sensationalism is less a matter of bad taste than of no taste. Where Geis' The King and The Exhibitionist were at least spicy, A Moment in Camelot is colorless and odor less and practically endless...