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Believe it or not, You're a Big Boy Now has some faults. It was written and directed by a 27-year-old new-comer with complete control of his film, it has a uniformly fine cast, and the Lovin' Spoonful sing the background music, but the movie is not a stunning click-your-heels-in-the-air success. It's just a fresh, fast, clever movie...
...Diplomat in Hollywood, Fla., received a refreshing surprise last week when a new singer named Lana Cantrell announced kiddingly, "I wrote all the music, and I made the dress myself." The same club is in for the same sort of happy jolt this week when another new comer, Marilyn Maye, breezes in and limits the tributes to her piano-accompanist husband, Sammy Tucker. "Stand up, honey," she usually says, "and let them see your fat little body." Their asides aside, Lana and Marilyn are old-fashioned do-it-yourself singers with an unmistakable message: a first-rate entertainer...
...Comer Pyle-U.S.M.C., CBS, tied with Bonanza...
...best westerns. But in this film, a mulish scenario puts a frustrating checkrein on the excitement, and it is slim pickings for Marlon Brando, playing a saddle tramp whose dream is to become a horse breeder, and John Saxon, portraying a Mexican bandit chieftain who has a girl (Anjanette Comer) up for grabs in his lair...
...quite an accomplishment for a man of 40 in a nation that seldom considers a man fit for high public office until he is well past his 50s. But Barzel had long since established himself as a comer. He joined the Neues Deutschland young Catholic movement while still a law student at the University of Cologne, and by the time he was elected to the Bundestag from a heavily Catholic Rhineland district in 1957, was already spokesman for an influential group of young Catholic laymen...