Word: companions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reaction, thought Miss Kael, aptly reflected the film's unsettling mixture of violence, humor and tragedy. Watching The PARIS.MATCH Defiant Ones in an audience composed of whites and Negroes, she noted two reactions when the black convict, Sidney Poitier, sacrifices his own freedom to try to save his white companion, Tony Curtis. The whites accepted the gesture in approving silence; the Negroes hooted derisively...
...Brother Brennan (Supreme Court Justices refer to one another fraternally), he is "an utterly delightful companion. In conference, no matter how tense the situation, he comes off with his delightful cracks." In the view of Madame Hervé Alphand, wife of the former French ambassador and one of the most noted capital hostesses, he was entirely outgoing. "Zat Abe," she once commented, "he dances with all the girls?long, short, fat, and thin...
...parade by the camera in a transvestite beauty . pageant. More of them are on the way to neighborhood screens. Staircase, a play about two aging male lovers has been bought by 20th Century-Fox; The Killing of Sister George, a tragicomedy concerning a tweedy lesbian and her baby-doll companion, is now being filmed by Robert Aldrich (The Dirty Dozen) in London. Oscar Winner Rod Steiger's next big film, The Sergeant, is about a homosexual G.I. who re-enlists to get closer to the boys. CBS Films this month announced that it has bought the rights...
That still left each of the 250 S.D.S. chapters free to do its own thing-including a little selfcriticism. One delegate strode down the aisle with a wastebasket on his head while a companion cried: "I nominate this trash can for national secretary." Workshops at the convention suggested a variety of possibilities, ranging from a concentration on "self-defense and internal security" to "organizing G.I.s" and "forming chapters at backward conservative campuses." If there was one common new goal it was a drive to expand S.D.S. influence in the nation's high schools. The Madison, Wis., chapter will...
...Director Elio Petri swore he bumped into-or through-a long-deceased ancestor of the villa's owner on the staircase one night. All those unnerving incidents soon had the stagehands muttering, and production lagged five days behind schedule until Vanessa and Co-Star Franco Nero, her constant companion since they made Camelot together, calmed the crew by holding midnight séances to keep the ha'nts at bay. "I regard the supernatural with great excitement," Vanessa said bravely...