Word: columne
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Charles Dickens sniped at such obsequies when he wrote of "the full-length engraving of the sublime Snigworth, snorting at a Corinthian column, with an enormous roll of paper at his feet, and a heavy curtain going to tumble down on his head; those accessories being understood to represent the noble lord in the act of saving his country." Dickens himself lies in circumstances of the kind that he once mocked...
...That the "coterie of middle-aging Catholic college alumnae" then dominating "the ranks of Legion reviewers" [Dec. 3] should be "expanded to include knowledgeable lay and clerical film buffs" was first proposed in my "Hollywood in Focus" column during the 1940s. As one of a dwindling minority of "moderates" among the Legion's lay consulters, I am somewhat loosely characterized in your otherwise excellent story. It is my position that, by faulty communications with Hollywood moviemakers and critical bias in favor of morally and ideologically debatable foreign films, the Legion has now reached the point of surrender to forces...
...Post runs a daily column of lo cal events called "Everything Is News," and apparently everything is. "A young tailor recently tried to commit suicide in his employer's backroom," reported the Post, "by strangling himself with his wife's brassiere. Rescued just in time by one of his fellow workers, the tailor fled out of the door with the black lace brassiere between his teeth." What made him do it? "He had become engaged to a bar hostess," the Post concluded, "who was endowed with a most enviable bosom. However, after several months, he found his bride...
After that, Woodward bounced from paper to paper; but in 1959, after Jock Whitney bought the Trib, he was invited back. He was not exactly penitent. His first column began: "As I was saying when I was so rudely interrupted eleven years ago . . ." When someone asked if he had any hard feelings about being fired, he replied: "Time wounds all heels...
Something Still Wrong? Inevitably, the Legion now appears too liberal to some, still too cautious to others. Roman Catholic Film Critic William Mooring, whose "Hollywood in Focus" column is syndicated in 41 diocesan newspapers, charges that "moderates" have been replaced in the ranks of Legion reviewers by liberals-"chiefly influenced by Jesuits"-who have an unCatholic tolerance for immoral movies. But many people agree with America's film critic Moira Walsh, herself a Legion consultor, who argues that something is still wrong with a rating system that can condemn a serious attempt at cinema art like The Pawnbroker...